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...YORK—An ape of a man with slick black hair and a purple shirt jumps up next to a gun-slinging bandit, the two of them swinging red plastic mallets at young men and women who scatter frantically...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mexican Workers Stage Complaints | 8/1/2003 | See Source »

These are taboos for real belly dancers. Real belly dancers cultivate and nurture their belly, feeding it and keeping it flexible. This belly dancer made her chest the star of the show, and that was just too slick, too packaged and too American for my sensibilities...

Author: By Erol N. Gulay, | Title: Beyond the Mirage | 7/11/2003 | See Source »

MORMON CRICKETS The worst cricket year in decades is devastating millions of acres of farmland in Utah and other Western states. Snowplows are out clearing roads made as slick as ice with crushed insects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crawling Your Way... | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...sweaty palms and don't get caught with bad breath. Berlusconi's salesman's touch has served him well over the past 10 years. The television baron was a novelty when he entered politics in 1993, but he got elected by adapting American campaign tactics - colorful party conventions and slick campaign slogans - to an Italian audience. It didn't hurt that he controlled three television stations, a daily newspaper and several weekly magazines that were covering the election. But media savvy didn't help him in office, and he was written off the following year when his first shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Not Adjust Your Sets | 6/29/2003 | See Source »

...stopped noticing it, and that was the result of an amateur approach. Our conclusion is that we had to professionalize everything?not that we don't want members to get involved, but professionalization is the way to go." To demonstrate this, the LRC recently opened a sports bar as slick as the ones in Hong Kong's Soho district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Club Mix | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

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