Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Politicians are known to be slick. Their rhetoric may be powerful and daring, but their positions often lack substance...
...Slick Willie" could take lessons in evasion from this master. Lincoln's dodging and weaving offended the abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker, who was a hero to Lincoln's law partner William Herndon. And Karl Marx, who was reading closely in his American sources, concluded that Lincoln was timorous: "All Lincoln's acts have the appearance of mean hedging provisos, which one lawyer puts to his opposing lawyer...
POLITICS MAY BE IN VOGUE IN PRIME time, but inside-the-Beltway sitcoms like Hearts Afire and The Powers That Be look cheesy next to a really smart political film like HBO's RUNNING MATES. Ed Harris plays a slick U.S. Senator who needs a wife to boost his bid for the presidency. Diane Keaton is a children's book author who falls for him but becomes a liability when a past indiscretion surfaces. The two stars click as a romantic team; there are nice offbeat touches (Keaton's mentally unbalanced brother, played by Ed Begley Jr.); and the backstage...
...general, front-runner Clinton, dubbed slick Willie by his political enemies in Arkansas, is more apt to straddle issues than to do the obvious reversals...
Such personages, however, got lost on the way to the casting of Singles, Cameron Crowe's slick new romance cum comedy cum melodrama...