Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel, Lily White (HarperCollins; 460 pages; $25), carries on cheerfully with this agreeable storytelling. The main character, Lily White, is a 45-year-old defense attorney whose new client is a gifted con man. He's a tall, awkward fellow who seems too clumsy to be slick, but his specialty is romancing rich, lonely, middle-aged women, and he is very good at it. Alas, however, his latest conquest has been found dead, with the marks of large hands on her throat...
...design company they started at a truck depot. Today his firm, Vidus, employs 40 people who design and sell labels for products from all over Russia. Revenues exceed $4.5 million a year, which makes Mansky, 28, one of Russia's new rich: he zips around St. Petersburg in a slick red Mazda and vacations with his wife in France and Spain. "If the Communists come to power--well, if that happens, it happens," he says with a shrug. "I am not stashing money or getting ready to flee. Of course I will vote, but there is not much choice...
...minutes of advertising for every 10 minutes of news, plays in more than 12,000 schools, while more than 58,000 schools participated in Pizza Hut's BOOK IT! National Reading Incentive Program this year. Financially strapped and desperate to spice up their curriculums, teachers may find irresistible the slick materials from the likes of Tootsie Roll and Disney jamming their mailboxes. "It's a lesson plan in a can," says Robert Paulis, a high school teacher in Parachute, Colorado, who showed the Exxon video along with one made by marine biologists. "Everyone needs one of those sometimes...
...root, it is this role that soon-to-be-ex-Senator Bob Dole most aspires to play: the self-effacing, quietly powerful small-town man from Main Street who outwits the cosmopolitan, slick-talking snob from the fleshpots. And why not? There is, after all, no more enduring American icon...
Look again. The Rock, directed by Michael Bay (Bad Boys) and written by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner, is less a rip-off than a corrective. Slick, brutal and almost human, this is the team-spirit action movie Mission: Impossible should have been...