Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite its somewhat saccharine rags-to-riches plot. I love the way Henry Higgins bombards Liza with continuously more inventive insults, to which she can only respond "coo" and look offended. I still think that "bedraggled guttersnipe" is the height of wit. Henry Higgins has that I'm-too-slick-for-words-but-I-fall-for-women-from- the-underclass kind of style that I find admirable in middle-aged linguists...
...peeling gold paint and rows of bare bulbs seem to portend a long evening at the Emerson Majestic Theater. Like the theater's facade, much of Leonard Bernstein's music has not weathered the thirty-odd years since its premiere as well as it might. But the verve and slick packaging of the Boston Lyric's production keep the show afloat, and prove that the company can hold its own in the world of American musical theater...
...East Cambridge is not about the big malls and the slick companies," he says. "It's about working families, and we can't let people forget that...
...Daniels' Henry V is Shakespeare for the nineties--slick, sexy, and kicked into overdrive by the exhilarating energy of Bill Camp's Henry. The stage seems to throb with the visual intensity of its blood-red set. The theater pulses with the rhythms of the language and the power-lust of the characters...
...claimed Farrakhan was involved in Malcolm X's 1965 assasination, prosecutors charged in court papers. "I lost my father and I'm risking losing my mother," Shabazz told government informant Michael Fitzpatrick, according to the prosecution. "I do think that eventually he's going to, in a very slick way, have her killed. OK, so it's either him or my mother." The defense contends Shabazz was set up by Fitzpatrick because he initiated most of the taped telephone calls between...