Word: slicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the nation's hyperactive special interest groups, from doctors to dairy farmers, none is as effective as the gun lobby in combining slick organization with membership zeal to create the perception of power on a single issue. For nearly 13 years, the N.R.A. and compatriot gun groups have successfully fought every attempt to strengthen the feeble Gun Control Act, passed after the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Now, in the wake of the shooting of President Reagan, the lobby is ready to ward off another wave of proposed gun laws. Senator Edward Kennedy...
...suggests that many of the anecdotes may be composites from various sources. None of those interviewed is identified, though a glossary reacquaints us with the language of the war: busting caps for firing a weapon, cherry for inexperience, hooch for shelter, No. 10 for the worst, klick for kilometer, slick for helicopter, Spooky for gunship. Santoli's approach is more traditionally documentary, though both books reveal a deranging truth: memories of war's exhilarations often outlast the horrors and revulsions...
...Presidential Press Secretary Jim Brady. Half an hour earlier, his deputy, Larry Speakes, had asked, "You going with the President to the hotel?" Brady's casual reply: "Yeah, I think I will." With other agents following in the "battlewagon" protective car, the caravan moved swiftly through the ram-slick streets to the hotel. Everything was going smoothly; the trip seemed quite routine...
...production, by Bob Clearmountain, is a bit too slick; on first listening, the styles just don't seem to jibe. Some songs sound like Graham Parker's guitar-led love letters, some like Lou Reed's wry, insightful epics, others like ethereal reggae. Yet repeated play reveals a unity: the "sounds" are all Garland Jeffreys...
Every knows craggy Walter Cronkite and dashing Dan Rather. The "60 Minutes" stopwatch and unblinking network eye are two of the most familiar symbols of American television. But few people ever get to see behind the slick facade of the nation's most popular broadcasting conglomerate let alone work for a whole summer with Cronkite. Rather and the legions of the CBS news division...