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...walked in (around 6:00 for the 2:30 showtime), it started to rain. After about 15 minutes, I decided I'd rather endure the drizzle and wander than sit and listen to more Blues Traveler. Guitarist Chan Cinchla's hair antics were more annoying than his slick ,soulless solos. John Popper is a very talented singer and a phenomenal harmonica player--all in all, someone I'd like to listen to, but first he's got to lose that guitar player...
...knows why the Clintons appear to have ignored the lesson of Watergate: the cover-up is invariably worse than the matters the participants seek to conceal. What we now do know, however, is that Mrs. Clinton is more like Mr. Clinton than anyone ever realized. Slick Willie, meet Slippery Hillary...
Elsewhere, savvy investors might have smelled a rat earlier. But this was postcommunist Russia, where capitalism is wild, woolly and new. The come-on, in any event, had been slick and seductive: pervasive TV commercials that wafted visions of apartments in Paris and vacations in California, and preposterous returns of 2,000% annually with no minimum investment. With those tactics, it did not take long for 5 million Russians to pour money into the offices of the MMM investment firm, the country's biggest and best-known stock fund...
Iraq is trying to cozy up to the outside world. Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz -- Hussein's slick spokesman during the Gulf War -- spent the weekend begging Greece and Turkey for help in lifting a U.N. embargo that has economically devastated his country...
...Grisham's attempt to distance his novel from The Firm's slick legal plot actually compromises the novel's success, Schumacher's pious adherence to the dramatic material of the novel--the Sway melodrama--significantly reduces "The Client"'s suspense potential. By the time Jones first appears (almost 15 minutes into the film as U.S. District Attorney Roy Foltrigg), we are beginning to wonder whether the "explosive secret" that Mark has learned is really important or whether the local authorities simply find the kid a good person to harass. With Jones on the screen as the ambitious and disgustingly smooth...