Word: slicking
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Clinton is smart, and a good listener. Even when he runs for student government at Georgetown University, and seems a bit slick for a campus politician, he is far more thoughtful, professional and sympathetic than any recent Harvard Undergraduate Council candidate. At Georgetown, he also gets a prominent government job working for Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. There Clinton, a character who had accepted rules without challenging them, senses forces that lead him to rebellion and reverses his support for the Vietnam...
...dementia are closely related to reality. As eccentric as his creatures may be, they are beguiling and invite the viewer to escape into a never-ending carnival of unabashed hedonism. In their lush use of brilliant colors, Nolde's works are hypnotic. Nolde often camouflages macabre elements beneath slick colors. The lithograph series of a "Young Couple" (1913) features a red print. Unlike the figures in its green and blue counterparts, the red couple shares a chemistry that is palpably heated and sexual. Nolde's red is so freshly applied that it could be blood submerging the lovers...
Matthew B. Brady's reworked and hand-colored studio pictures are miniature versions of the slick and stern protraits of dead white males that gaze out on the Freshman Union walls. It is disconcerting to see how his studio's efforts make the photographs lose realism to become flatly colored images. In mimicking the 19th century landscape paintings of John Constable, Peter Henry Emerson's delicate landscape photographs ironically achieve the realism those paintings painstakingly sought...
...exercise in formal symmetry. In its first act, an older woman reluctantly talks to a younger one in a laundromat. They discover that they share a last name, Johnson, and then proceed to uncover each others' histories until their exploration is disturbed by the entrance of a man, a slick radio personality named Shooter (Derrick N. Ashong...
Basketball is called the city game, but that's not quite right. The really slick American city game is played by college and high school coaches, sports agents, shoe manufacturers, sportswriters and TV producers. It involves conning kids--mostly poor black kids--into believing that they can grow up to play professional basketball. The fine documentary film Hoop Dreams shows how the game is played with high school basketballers in Chicago, and now Darcy Frey's thoughtful, sharply observed book, The Last Shot (Houghton Mifflin; 230 pages), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School...