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...Adams House I knew I was in trouble. I could tell I needed a slicker, an umbrella, something and my traditional insurance--raingear in my backpack--had somehow been forgotten. The rain dripping down off my glasses and running in streams on my cheek, I gauged the remaining path and hoped for the best...
...PREMISE: This romantic comedy has it all, showcasing Gershwin's greatest hits, including "I've Got Rhythm," "Someone to Watch Over Me," and "Embraceable You," in a plot involving a cowgirl and a city slicker, New York showgirls and Nevada yokels, bar brawls and broadway shows...
...people in front of Steve Grubbs looked slightly embarrassed and maybe a little put out as he preached. Here was another chapter in the book about political peddlers come to slicker the rubes. As I watched this scene in my hometown, I think I knew who was being slickered. Next day a high school friend, Yvonne Schildberg, a Republican activist, told me, "I went to be polite. I'm for Elizabeth Dole." Another friend said, "This straw poll is really an insult to anyone's intelligence...
Cutting the number of council representatives and ending popular elections of the council's top leadership would create a "slicker" council, Gruenhut says...
...Angeles was a perfect proving ground for this slicker, more humanized and glamorous version of modernism than the Bauhaus produced. It had the climate and the light. It had the talent, the money and the daring to support a new design movement. And of course there was all that postwar production capacity. Eames' molded plywood chairs, in fact, used a technology he developed for making lightweight splints for the Navy...