Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately for Jack, it is the slick Yardley Acheman who winds up consoling lonely Charlotte. But Jack has found other reasons to dislike Yardley. He has noticed that Ward does all the hard digging for facts: He wanted to have it exactly right. Yardley hangs around waiting to put his stylish spin on what Ward uncovers. "We get into too much detail," Jack hears Yardley complain at one point. "It ruins the narrative flow." Yardley comes up with a crucial and convenient piece of the puzzle...
...course, e-mail is not the only way a virus can be transmitted, and indeed, it is quite a rare means of transmission since it is pretty klunky (most computer programmers, especially the unhappy souls who spawn viruses, prefer to be "slick" in their work...
...Slick men with tight pink tank tops glide across campus. A half-naked guy in a wig sings a lively Judy Garland medley in the Union. And two Owl members demonstrate the homoerotic nature of their brotherly bonds by performing a mock "marriage" in front of Widener library...
...supposed to think it preposterous that most American soldiers feel strong contempt for Slick Willie? Take a look at the smirks that inevitably appear on soldiers' faces upon introduction to their "Commander in Chief" during contrived photo...
BASKETBALL IS CALLED THE CITY game, but that's not quite right. The really slick 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; $19.95), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School...