Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of pairs, one of your everyday unbalanced domestic quadrangles, in fact. Jerry loves Sally Mathias-and Ruth Conant, but is married only to Ruth. Sally loves herself and Jerry-but is married to Richard Mathias. Richard, who sees himself as "a teacher of worldliness," once had a brief, slick affair with Ruth...
...similarities it bore to last year's Harvard-Penn contest were as weird as the men's room at Lamont--a sluggish game, that the Crimson dominated throughout, an injury to Jim Kubacki on a slick tartan surface upon which he claims he enjoys playing, a final score which doesn't quite do justice to Harvard's superiority...
Considering this new mentality, the most recent addition to Boston area feminist newspapers, Equal Times, will probably meet with considerable success. At any rate, it has all the markings of the socially palatable feminism getting passed around these days: slick-looking, personal but not solidarity-oriented writing, Equal Times is, ultimately, a tribute to this new brand of feminism...
...Neil is one of the city's best-known politicians. His stereotypical Irish pol looks--stocky build, slick white hair, and bulldog face--constant jokes and vicious racism make up his now familiar act. While newspaper articles on O'Neil recount his actions humorously, few seriously examine and explain the rise of this well-publicized but rather ineffective politician...
...NICEST things about What Really Happened is the authors' determination to avoid those easy, slick judgments about their characters. Limiting their own role to descriptions and an occasional musing, they allow the people they present to speak for themselves and about each other, using excerpts from interviews. The reader's view is manipulated subtly, by juxtaposition and choice of adjectives--a pleasant change from Decter's brand of opinionated aggressiveness. The subtlety isn't constant, though; every once in a while they throw in a summing-it-all-up pronouncement that detracts from their overall accomplishment. In the profile...