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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign's biggest expense so far was a Dick Morris-inspired $2.4 million ad campaign last summer featuring three slick commercials on the President's crime-fighting record. This was meant to inoculate Clinton against any G.O.P. soft-on-crime attacks and also warn off any other Democrats with big dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: WHAT CLINTON IS DOING RIGHT | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...person, however, Natchez is not the slick, hyper-dressed stage presence of Skavoovie; quiet and personable, he doesn't seem that different from any other teenager, slightly anxious at his first solo interview...

Author: By Kathryn R. Markham, | Title: SKAVOOVIE! | 2/3/1996 | See Source »

...storm evoked the classic range of human behaviors, from slick to tragic to elevated. Entrepreneurs in Reston, Virginia, asked $125 to shovel driveways. In Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, a 60-year old shoved his 70-year-old neighbor for accusing him of dumping snow on his car, and the man fell and died. In New York, notwithstanding its recent rosy crime statistics, two men with a 9-mm pistol reportedly relieved Bronx building superintendent Robert DeJesus of his snowblower. But other city dwellers deferred elaborately to one another on narrow-shoveled walks. In Washington, Abby Stone and her two daughters made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BLIZZARD OF '96 | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...after McMillan's well-written book struck gold are any indication, it's also trash oriented, no matter what ethnic group it's aiming at. What a tragedy if African Americans' understandable desire to see themselves on the big screen becomes an excuse to smother all of us in slick Hollywood trash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEAVY BREATHING: WAITING TO EXHALE | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

...reason for the widespread acclaim McMillan's book received was the depth of her characters and the web of personal relations that logically develop amongst them during the course of the novel. Whittaker skips over character development in favor of fancy establishing shots and slick symbolic poses that leave most people feeling as though they just missed something...

Author: By Marian Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Waiting for a Good Movie? Don't Hold Your Breath | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

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