Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prelude to self-immolation. Case in point: Jerry Maguire (a superb Tom Cruise). Soon after he calls on his colleagues in a sports agency to consider human values as well as the bottom line, he gets fired. Spinning his wheels wildly, he seeks moral traction in an icy-slick world, aided by his one remaining client (a testy Cuba Gooding Jr.) and his sole employee (Renee Zellweger, fierce and mousy). Blending romance and realism, writer-director Cameron Crowe achieves the kind of confident, endearing comedy you would've sworn Hollywood had lost the knack of making...
...engineering isn't art, and I think my friends may be overreacting. Too much of MSN's stuff is slick but unexciting. The best thing I saw was a little Gumby-like character that a kid on the tech side had built out of clay at home for fun and then modeled in his workstation, making it do amazing tricks. The day Microsoft figures out how to get that thing out of the kid's computer and onto the Net is the day my friends should start looking for a new line of work...
...broadway classic "The Music Man," a slick con-artist arrives in the small midwestern town of River City and proceeds to convince the populace that they are facing an impending explosion of juvenile delinquency. The cause--a new pool hall that's just opened. The con-man tells the townspeople that the only way to save their children is to enroll them in a wholesome activity--a marching band--and then sells them expensive uniforms and instruments...
...enterprising Encores! series, Walter Bobbie's production is sleek, spare and diamond hard. The story of Roxie Hart is told in a series of fiercely stylized, irony-laced musical episodes. In the Cell Block Tango, Roxie's jailbird peers sing of the men they've bumped off. A slick defense attorney makes his entrance crooning "All I care about is love," accompanied by feather-waving chorines. In the climactic trial, Roxie beats the rap, only to be abandoned by reporters rushing on to the next sensational case. What seemed cynical in 1975 is now au courant. Chicago hasn't merely...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We are tired of our kids being afraid to walk to school alone...of illegal drugs that are poisoning our youth...of slick criminal-defense lawyers pushing criminals to freedom through legal loopholes...of seeing our prisoners treated better than the working men and women of this country...