Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movement for free airtime arises from several factors: people may be fed up with the slick spitballs that candidates throw from behind the mask of a voice-over. But the fact that both voters and sages decry them does not shame candidates out of using them, in part because they work. Furthermore, the reformers argue, raising the money to pay for the ads consumes the candidates' time and corrodes their independence. Since these ads won't go away without a repeal of the First Amendment, the next best hope is to counteract them, to prod the candidates into standing...
...crash site rescuers were hampered by the inhospitableness of the Everglades--and the plane's flammable oil slick. Said Miami Fire Lieut. Luis Fernandez: "We've had to pull the airboats out of the water. It's not like the ocean; there's no water circulating, so there's no way for the fuel to dissipate. What we're having to do is land on high ground and then have our rescuers slush through four feet of water." With that kind of contact come the natural hazards of the swamp: alligators and snakes...
...religious concerns in lyrics that are by turns inscrutable and revealing. On one song, The Way, NdegeOcello sings, "They say you're the way the light/The light is so blinding/Your followers condemn me your words used to enslave me." Her bitter words are a sharp contrast to the agreeably slick, burbling, bass-heavy groove of the music. On some of the other songs, though, one wishes NdegeOcello's music were as fiery as her lyrics...
Overnight, Harvard created a slick, speedy attack to complement its stalwart defense and rock-solid net-minder Rob Lyng...
...downright sinful if they weren't being done in the name of the Lord. All this is no accident--gospel by its very form has the power to take worldly emotions and transform them into something sacred, something uplifting. Unfortunately, much of what passes for gospel today is too slick, too processed, too angelically artificial to tap into the essential emotions and sublime passions that are provoked by the genre's original, rootsier form. There's no salvation to be found in daintiness. If you want to baptize someone in the spirit, you've got to get your hands...