Word: slicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...array of requests from the Associated Harvard Alumni (AHA), combined with the preparations of a Commencement Planning Task Force of Buildings and Grounds (B&G) and Harvard police reveal the extent to which Commencement has become a curious combination of slick, big-business organization and small-scale purchasing...
...minded roommate's plan to entrap men by pretending to be more worldly than they are. There is a sweet giddiness to this passage, a nostalgic indulgence of youthful silliness-except that it is the women who are trapped. Katerina becomes pregnant and bears the child of the slick television-type who is briefly her lover, but presses ahead with a career anyway -there's steel under her shyness-and suddenly finds herself in life's second...
...over the fact our interrelationships are destabilized and smooth. On the other hand, it seems a strange intellectual game--a furious overcompensation--for one to watch a soap opera and then be able to find intelligent reasons for the act later in the week on the pages of our slick arbiter of taste. Either way, it jars. Somehow it smacks of elevating the form without changing the content. Who knows? Maybe Chekhov would have watched the Iowa State Opera's version of "Boris Gudonov" complete with introduction by a genuine Russian. Then again, our ultimate pop icon Elvis Presley probably...
...leaflet also warned against the "advanced, slick advertising and sales techniques" used by recruiters...
...sobriety. The music that has done the most to build the five-man European company into the world's most thriving jazz label ranges in style and quality from the vaulting improvisational rhapsodies of Keith Jarrett to the congenial jazz-rock fusion of Pat Metheny and the slick sketches of Chick Corea. Jarrett, Metheny and Corea account for most of the label's top ten albums. Jarrett's ravishingly beautiful The Köln Concert, released in 1975, has sold more than 750,000 copies-a strong showing for a double album in any league, even rock...