Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's supporters argue he should get credit for not giving a faux-earnest Apology on Demand. But why would Clinton now, after seven months of sustained lying, suddenly choose honesty? His Slick Willie side has always known that the most important quality a politician can have is sincerity. And no politician is better at faking it than he is. In 1980 Clinton was a failed one-term Governor until he apologized for raising car-tag fees and got his wife to drop that fancy "Rodham" business with her name. In 1992 he became the Comeback Kid, miraculously saving...
President Clinton failed to be "Slick Willy" by picking the wrong girl. Were I a man, I would not have chosen Monica Lewinsky in a million years. ALBERTA CRESCENZI Rome...
There was dissension among the investigators as well, with the beat cops complaining about being big-footed by detectives. Englewood residents generally trust the uniformed cops, calling the detectives "slick boys." And despite public avowals, there was doubt among the detectives themselves. A violent-crimes detective called TIME before the charges were dropped to track down a potential witness mentioned in the magazine. He admitted that he believed the police may have accused at least one of the suspects wrongly. The older boy, he said, "got scared and rode away" when Ryan fell from her bike...
Clinton--and almost all politicians--are congenitally guilty of St. Augustine's lie No. 5: "That lie which is told from a desire to please others in smooth discourse." It is from this desire, not more carnal ones, that he gets the nickname Slick Willie. The presidential candidate who tells audiences one thing in New Hampshire and another in California fits into this category. Politicians have been helped mightily in this regard by the ubiquity and sophistication of pollsters who tell politicians what pleases voters...
...surge has turned Faircloth's re-election into a fifty-fifty proposition. Democrats are jubilant over a new internal poll that shows the two men in a statistical dead heat. Even Republicans say the race will be close. "It's not every day that you run against a very slick, very glib, very talented, very presentable personal-injury lawyer," deadpans Alex Castellanos, Faircloth's media adviser. "They know how to sell...