Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While sports dailies thrive in other nations, including France and Italy, they tend to stress facts and figures rather than slick writing. The National, on the other hand, presents itself as a literate journal aiming at young, well-off college graduates, presumably male. Some 1,200 pages of ads have been sold for the first year, 20% above initial projections, thanks in large part to Deford's credibility, which he has exploited by pitching to potential advertisers in person. Says Drew Marcus, an analyst at Kidder Peabody: "The paper is going after a very narrow niche, but one with...
...football has become a slick, indoor imitation of itself, jazzy old New & Slightly Used Orleans somehow remains the real thing, or nearly. On Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, a minicam crew stalks tourists, trying to find someone wearing a Broncos feed cap. The visitor ducks around the corner into Preservation Hall, a magnificently funky storefront that looks as if it has been flooded and drained a few times, where a $2 donation lets you stand and listen to some grand old Dixielanders wail the stuffing out of St. James Infirmary and Muskrat Ramble...
...slick radio campaign kicked off last week by the Washington-based Federation for American Immigration Reform says traffic, homelessness, drug smuggling and other social problems will only escalate if present rates of immigration continue. FAIR is seeking a tighter lid on illegal immigrants and a 300,000-a-year cap on legal new arrivals...
...actual event has so far proved to be far less damaging. Thanks to mild weather that kept the spill at bay, by the end of last week the 217-mile-long slick had stagnated about 29 miles off the Moroccan coast. Though the spill from the Iranian supertanker Khark 5 is the 16th largest in history, its eventual impact on the environment and Morocco's economy may be relatively mild. But until the oil is completely dispersed, changes in the weather may yet push the crude onto the shore. That possibility was keeping Moroccans on edge...
What makes Strasser's work refreshing is its liberation from slick superficial image making of either the "traditional" or the trendy variety -- no capriciously transplanted Corinthian columns, no aren't-we-important mahogany wainscoting. "The problem with most interior designers," he says, "is that they just decorate. I try to design architecture indoors...