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...months now, opinion polls have been predicting that Labour faces possible annihilation at the next election, due by spring 2010. The data pinpoints Brown as a liability. When he replaced Tony Blair, voters saw in the serious Scot a refreshing change from his predecessor's slick style. But Brown's deliberative approach has come to appear indecisive; his detail-heavy, poetry-free utterances have failed to connect with voters. He acknowledged these failings in his speech to the delegates. "I didn't come into politics to be a celebrity or to be popular," he said, adding, "Perhaps that's just...
...downside, don't expect the Dream to be anywhere near as slick and shiny as the iPhone. T-Mobile may be much loved among teens for its colorful, flip-screen Sidekick, but the HTC Dream will likely have a more staid look that lacks the iPhone's panache. Plus, no one can turn on the hype machine quite as well as Steve Jobs. But whatever the Dream may lack in flair, it's no less of a breakthrough when it comes to giving mobile-phone buyers more ways to connect...
...Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.)--about Nick George (Peter Krause), who becomes in-house lawyer to the rich, tabloid-fodder family the Darlings--started fall 2007 sassy and slick but became increasingly earnest and torpid as it went on. The producers decided, astutely, that it needed to return dirtier and sexier, or there would be no mo' money. The return episode is also funnier and dumber, in the best sense: it's the kind of show in which a jilted wife confronts her politician husband with a golf club in the shower over his tranny lover. Its stripped-from-the-tabloids...
...simply on the wrong path, young lady. Tired and frustrated, Lily returned to her room determined to stick it to both her nighttime wardens and the stale daytime sentry who patrolled her school. With great gusto, Lily accented the plaid skirt she is forced to wear every day with slick black strips of duct tape, and, concluding that she had accomplished her goal with great flair and even greater bravery, she called it a night.If Lily’s story sounds familiar, even cheesy, well, it should: her narrative is so familiar that even the least jaded among...
...movie is at one with its characters: all shiny surfaces and slick camera choreography, it looks so smart it can fool you into thinking something clever is going on or will start in just a minute. Instead, the movie devolves until it practically dissolves, and the only laughter you might hear is from the guys behind the camera...