Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...storm-tapping through Yankee Doodle Dandy. The boy in the chorus who trundled his way through a nine-month tour of Grease. The young man who landed a supporting part on a sitcom, watched himself become a TV star, a pretty face on a poster, and a purveyor of slick, sappy top 40 ballads. All that bought him a shot at what is still, in the static-charged currents of media celebrity, the ultimate fantasy fulfillment, the greatest of all gaudy dreams: movie stardom...
...want to hear. Mississippians are, on the average, so poor, and so tired of being reminded of it that they will listen to anyone who will tell them differently or promise to change it. Combined with this is an extremely low level of education, and when a campaign as slick as was Finch's (again, one can only wonder where the money came from) hit them, it was natural to fall...
...answer this query, you must go beyond the slick, master-salesman style that characterizes the amiable former Notre Dame assistant coach and led one Boston columnist to crack that McLaughlin would have made a mint selling Arizona real estate...
...rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm" that could make "you all aquiver." The Gershwin songs are great, stuff your grandmother might have warbled in her day, still sprightly enough to get us up off our seats, to make Fred Astaires of us all. Even though the show is definitely not slick, by the second act everything clicks. And while the first act has a certain high-schoolishness about it, and while some ideas for the sets and costumes were probably better on paper than in execution--all in all, it's still good clean...
...always going in for dramatic things, and that was dramatic work," he says. So was the Alpine Rescue Team, a rock-climber rescue group Jim joined in the spring of his sophomore year. "It was really neat stuff. Neat equipment to work with, and it's really slick to pull someone off the rock. It's a gas to be hanging out there, with your ass over everything. You're all roped in, so nothing's going to happen to you, and it looks cooler than hell...