Word: slicking
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...among the other topics on Ankle Deep, which mostly steers clear of boy-girl stuff in favor of far less charted lyrical waters. All the banging on sets of bells and strumming of ukeleles somehow add up to ingratiating, appealing music, neither clunky nor gimmicky, and neither "punk" nor slick. My favorite Wimp Factor song is "Role Model Glue," about a guy like me who can't bear to believe less than the best about his personal heroes: "Use too much role model glue/ To build up someone to look up to/ Not such a great idea." Here...
...sometimes even root for a man capable of murder and deceit. Dressed like an Olympic coach from the former Soviet Union, Alexis Susman as the Dutch psychic Helga Ten Dorp, delivers the play's most amusing lines with appropriate timing and sense of mock seriousness. Benjamin's slick, swaggering and sleazy charm make him a convincing pretty-boy writer and conspirator...
SOUTHERN COMFORT ADS: Ads for the drink of choice of 4-by-4 owners are running in slick magazines like Elle and Spin and feature dreadlocked guys playing the saxophone. Next, Quaker State motor...
Twilight often resembles a couple of far less weighty Jewish family comedies now on Broadway, The Sisters Rosensweig and a slick new romance between sexagenarians, Mixed Emotions -- except it isn't nearly as good. Arvin Brown's ham-fisted direction leads to stilted acting from everyone save Sbarge and Michael Spound as his whiny brother...
...fresher and has more complex echoes for our own era. The near-miss campaign of socialist Upton Sinclair for Governor of California in 1934, the subject of one full episode, is like an event from prehistoric times; it can't happen here anymore. Yet the account of Hollywood's slick media campaign to defeat him might have come from a 1993 campaign adviser's handbook. The newsreel footage showing police trying to "rout out nests of communists hiding in empty boxcars" seems quaintly dated. Yet the headlines of plant closings and shots of homeless people on the streets look, alas...