Word: slickers
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...Laura Baxter are working quietly when John suddenly breaks a piece of glass, cuts himself. Blood creeps like some blotted gargoyle over the face of a color slide--it shows the interior of a Venetian church he is restoring. Outside, their little girl has just drowned, and her red slicker is floating on the water. Already we are drawn into this world, sympathizing with the wounds it suffers, informed about it as suddenly and unexpectedly as the edge cuts John Baxter, and he feels the sudden premonition that sends him running out to his daughter...
...DANCE TO Loggins and Messina, but you can have just as much fun laughing, singing and drinking with them. Theirs is good time music about whimsical loves like Winnie the Pooh, rock and roll, and Jamaican girls. Full Sail, their third album, is slicker and, at times, too cute, but Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina seem to have survived stardom to remain distinctively refreshing...
...infusion of new tunes should help some, but many critics feel that Loggins and Messina are getting trapped within one image, that instead of improving, they will simply get slicker. But while there may not be a great deal of growth potential in their style, there are good times; no one seriously plans to grow old with them...
...storeowners seemed to mind. Most stood and watched while people picked through the refuse and some even encouraged passersby: "Take what you want, everything's ruined." A less lenient opinion came from a phone company employee in a yellow rain slicker who said to a fellow worker. "You know what they ought to do to those looters?--take out a gun and shoot them on the spot...
Tall, tanned and toothy he moves through the poor farm and hill towns of West Virginia like some cultured country slicker. Striding into one tiny town hall he purposely bypasses the speaker's podium, hikes one shiny size-12 shoe onto a folding chair, unbuttons his navy blue cashmere blazer, loosens his wide striped tie and says with a slight twang: "They say, 'Now you know Jay. He's a carpetbagger. He came down here to use this state.' " He flashes the neon smile. "Now I criticized my parents because they didn't allow...