Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Raymond Kroc, today one of America's 12 richest men, who created the McDonald's monster. Back in 1954, Kroc, a slick-talking paper cup salesman passing through town, saw their operation. On the spot, he offered them a deal: in exchange for the right to use their names, methods, and golden arch insignia in order to establish identical McDonald's franchises around the country, he would give them a small percentage of each store's sales. The brothers, "out-spieled," reluctantlyagreed. Within five years Kroc had bought out their share of the enterprise. And a few months later, annoyed...
With yesterday's 3-1 loss to a slick (now 13-3) Brandeis team on an even slicker Soldiers Field, the squad's record rests, not so comfortably, at 3-10 (14-12 total). Each game draws Harvard's overall mark a little closer to that elusive .500 mark, but unfortunately, it's being driven there from the wrong direction...
...movie claims to protest such outright exploitation of women. Yet after this voyeuristic and sensationalized scene, there are others which exploit Chris McCormack's predicament in more subtle, teasing ways. The trial is fast and slick; the defense counsel makes his main point--that Stuart couldn't help being seduced by Chris's public eroticism--by asking the model how she manages to appear so provocative in her photographs. "Isn't it true that you think about things that will make you hot? Don't you have to imagine sexual acts to turn yourself on for these pictures?" he challenges...
They would have us believe that they have a serious cautionary interest in rape, its causes and consequences, but whenever there is a choice between the sober and the merely slick they opt for the easy and popular thing. To play the victim they have chosen that chic curiosity, Margaux Hemingway. With her flat voice and her tuned-out manner there is no hope of her playing anything like a typical American woman-or victim. She can only be what she is, a high-fashion model, a glamorous exotic. But that's all right. Her work gives...
...because he spends most of his time in Columbus with Senate work. Forman heats up when he talks about this particular campaign-manager headache; he and his boss have a running battle over Celebrezze's absence from his district. "We don't have the dough to run a slick media campaign," laments Forman. "It's all personal contact--but Tony has to be here." Getting Celebrezze's name in the local news takes more calculation than for other candidates who hold local positions--what goes on in Columbus often loses out in competition with local news...