Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peripheral characters help fill in the rest of the stuffing for the plot and itsplodding humor: the salty coach, the evil owner, the arrogant player on the rival team, the bad and the good girlfriend. In fact, this movie implies some interesting assertions about blond and brunette personalities, the slick golden seductrees versus the nurturing, brown-eyed-girl-next-door. It might do better to explore the psychological ramifications of hair color, rather than trying to present a collection of trite triumphs...
...heart of the Clinton presidency lies an oddity. Bill Clinton has been plagued by questions of character and trustworthiness throughout his career. He earned the nickname Slick Willie long before he ran for the White House. The man who "didn't inhale" is a man the public does not trust. His slickness is such a given that in a column defending the President, Michael Kinsley quite casually, indeed parenthetically, concedes that Clinton all but lied about Gennifer Flowers...
...might have disappeared permanently if not for its canny ability simultaneously to buck and ride the new-wave trend, grafting its brawny, blues-inflected guitar licks onto slick synthesizer grooves and pulsing dance beats. On multiplatinum-selling albums such as 1983's Eliminator and 1985's Afterburner, guitarist Billy Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard (the only bandmate without one) perfected a progressive yet reassuringly familiar rock stance and tapped a huge audience that shared their ambivalence. By the end of the decade, however, their sound had become all too accurately described by the title of their...
Liat Kaplan's direction creates a slick synchronicity between characters, keeping the emotion at a dramatic rather than melodramatic level. In places, this results in woodenness, but it is kept to a minimum even in the potentially static second and third acts. Even in the most turgid moments of the plot the emphasis on appropriateness and refinement does not give way to the hackneyed and postured acting that has labeled opera in the minds of many as a dramatic dead...
...recent drive to send humanitarian aid to Bosnia, I have a few experiences I would like to share with the purveyors of the conventional wisdom. During this effort, I came into contact with many students who astonished me with their altruism. For anyone who is confronted by a slick marketing type condescendingly writing our generation off with that "X," I offer the following few vignettes. Each one is an anecdote about people who are idealists, and who are willing to give of themselves to a communal cause. I give them to fellow members of my generation to defend ourselves against...