Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...water supply. The victims are kids, dying of leukemia as a result. The plaintiffs are their distraught, financially hard-pressed parents. Their unlikely champion is a lawyer named Jan Schlichtmann (John Travolta), who risks all and finally loses all that he and his partners have gained through the hot, slick pursuit of ambulances, as this case turns into an obsession...
...might well expect a record by a teenage pop singer to be overly emotional, earnest, bursting with hormonal passions. But 17-year-old Britney Spears' first album feels like the opposite of adolescence: the songs are mostly slick and remote, steering away from anything that's too deeply felt. The title track is cuddly, though, and already a hit single. A few of her songs, including the pleasantly modern ballad E-Mail My Heart, indeed deliver a sugar high, and may well win over the very same crowd that goes for tot-pop acts like the Spice Girls and Brandy...
...HOLE Celebrity Skin (DGC) Much has been made of bandleader/provocateur Courtney Love's musical makeover. Her group's previous albums were raw and ragged, but this latest release is shiny and sometimes slick. Still, bleached hair has dark roots: beneath the polite production, this CD boasts galvanizing moments of rude, undeniable beauty...
...reader remembered that "TIME once described a TV character from the '70s as 'a human oil slick.' Who was that character?" The Fonz? Vinnie Barbarino? Nope. The slickster was J.R. Ewing of Dallas, as depicted in a 1980 cover story. Another recalled a photograph in TIME of two Peruvian surgeons, Drs. Francisco Grana Reyes and Esteban Rocca. "The content of the story," said the reader, "was about a modern-day brain operation using ancient tools from the Mayans." Did we run that? Yes, indeed...
...first number, "Sweet Dreams" danced to the familiar song by The Eurythmics, the dancers entered the stage alongside vocalist Maggie Hulce '01. Dressed in the shiniest sequins this side of Vegas, Hulce, with her velvety voice and slick choreography, single handedly gave this number glitz and kitsch, and somehow she got away with...