Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oldest son, Biff, The audience enters the story when Biff, in his thirties, has failed to live up to his father's hopes. Confronted with Biff's refusal, Willy is forced, by the end of the play, out of his world of illusions. In the end, all the slick talk in the world can no longer suffice and he is finally reduced to admitting, "I am Nothing!..I am just what I am!" He takes his car to his final sale, killing himself to pay off the debt his life has incurred. The remainder of the play is a "requiem...
...commercial. This was the man who could nurture a "quality" show such as Hill Street Blues while singing the praises of Punky Brewster. "He has an absolute disdain for anything intellectual," says one less-than-admiring colleague. "He'd rather eat hamburger than steak." Yet in a world of slick network suits, Tartikoff has always been one of the most articulate, thoughtful and candid programmers around...
...reporter--and particularly a sports reporter--I run into this situation nearly every day. Harvard Athletics employs only three slick-talking professional spin doctors, and uses them to shield only the senior athletic department officials, so all the coaches and athletes are on their...
...Debonair," are those where drums, bass, and guitars are all active. "My Curse" is a piano and acoustic guitar midtempo track with vocalist Marcy Mays featured. In rhythm and feel it is very similar to Eric Clapton's unplugged version of "Layla," with Mays' vocal reminiscent of Grace Slick...
...last Rowen is undone by doubt, destroyed by the conscience his forebear so happily lacked. In between Keach plays a sharecropper who plots vengeance on his landlord for more than four decades before finally regaining his homestead, and that man's son, who deals his birthright away to a slick-talking tale spinner for the Rockefeller energy interests...