Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plot line follows a consistent structure, just like a regular sit-com. Every episode, Joe has a new job that seems guaranteed, but, within five minutes, he manages to lose it. Blunsten returns home where success surrounds him: his wife, Marcie, is a slick newscaster. His daughter, Peppermint, gets promoted every week in her job at Taco Parade: first to Golden Sombrero, then to Aztec Sun God and finally, to CEO. Even his pet, Yipper, wins fame and glory as a rescue dog in the Himalayas...
From there, the Crimson defense, already suspect, disintegrated completely. Babson's slick interior passing and heads-up fast breaks left Harvard in its wake...
...both sides of the screen. Producer Peter Guber and screenwriter Michael Cristofer, who had earlier coarsened John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, were the wrong gents to midwife Wolfe's book. So was De Palma, whose vision is all muscle, no finesse. Tom Hanks lacked the slick stature of Wall Street wizard Sherman McCoy (Wolfe wanted Chevy Chase). Melanie Griffith was no slinky Circe (De Palma wanted Uma Thurman), and Bruce Willis was hardly a desiccated Brit (John Cleese said no thanks). Finally, for reasons of ethnic balance, Morgan Freeman replaced Alan Arkin as a righteous judge...
...territory. Mariel Hemingway and Peter Onorati (a survivor of Cop Rock) play New York City lawyers who team up to handle divorce work. The Bochco trademarks are all here: three or four story lines interwoven through the hour, a mix of social comment and sophomoric black humor, and a slick, upscale look. (Even the office secretary dresses like a Vogue model...
Demagogues don't yell "nigger" or "Jew boy" anymore. They've learned better. Just as David Duke shed his Klansman's sheets and Nazi uniform for the well-groomed banality of a suburban stockbroker, he traded in his bigoted rhetoric for a slick new glossary of coded appeals to racial resentment, market tested over the past two decades by mainstream conservative politicians. When Duke, following Richard Nixon's lead, denounces hiring "quotas," many among his white working-class supporters hear him saying, The government is going to give your jobs to blacks. When Duke, like Ronald Reagan, castigates "welfare queens...