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...Slick men with tight pink tank tops glide across campus. A half-naked guy in a wig sings a lively Judy Garland medley in the Union. And two Owl members demonstrate the homoerotic nature of their brotherly bonds by performing a mock "marriage" in front of Widener library...
...supposed to think it preposterous that most American soldiers feel strong contempt for Slick Willie? Take a look at the smirks that inevitably appear on soldiers' faces upon introduction to their "Commander in Chief" during contrived photo...
BASKETBALL IS CALLED THE CITY game, but that's not quite right. The really slick city game is played by college and high school coaches, sports agents, shoe manufacturers, sportswriters and TV producers. It involves conning kids -- mostly poor black kids -- into believing that they can grow up to play professional basketball. The fine documentary film Hoop Dreams shows how the game is played with high school basketballers in Chicago, and now Darcy Frey's thoughtful, sharply observed book, The Last Shot (Houghton Mifflin; 230 pages; $19.95), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School...
...Another time a Speaker of the House was voted out of office was in 1860, when William Pennington lost his re-election bid; at the same time, however, a member of the same party, Abraham Lincoln, was elevated to the presidency. A caveat: Lincoln's nickname wasn't "Slick...
...monster's birth scene in "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" is a microcosm of the film's strengths and weaknesses. The creature and his creator wrestle in a mesmerizing but awkward dance through the laboratory, slick with the creature's birth fluid. Branagh's interpretation of the Frankenstein story is thematically sound and visually arresting, though often gruesome. Yet its director/star/co-producer is never able to wrestle the film, its camera or script into a graceful waltz...