Word: slicking
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...Confucian familial ideals, an exposé of the "deadness of family life," and, by extension, the ills of a charred, paternalistic nation. Guanglin's nonlinear narration may be detached and muddled at times, but his - and Yu's - unvarnished vision of China is a welcome antidote to the slick slogans manufactured by Beijing. "Harmonious society"? For Yu Hua, China is anything...
...Etait Vrai... , published in English as If Only It Were True, became the 2005 Hollywood film Just Like Heaven starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo.) "An hour and a half later, they are sitting at dinner, and some are agreeing while others are disagreeing." France today can make slick, highly commercial movies - Amélie, Brotherhood of the Wolf - but for many foreigners the taint of talkiness lingers...
...recently-released video “Teddy Picker” by British indie rockers the Arctic Monkeys. In this video, from their second album “Favourite Worst Nightmare,” the band expresses their utter disdain for the contemporary music video. The Monkeys break with slick mainstream productions and display a cavalier attitude. This pimples-and-all approach shows the boys in their street clothes, with bad haircuts and acne in full view. It also features some serious musicianship. The group is shown primarily in the studio as they set up and record the track, with cuts...
...that my game is big enough and that I understand it well enough to compete at a national level.”In Nguyen’s first match, against preseason No. 11 Oleksandr Nedovyesov of Oklahoma, nerves tripped him up. By the time he had adjusted to the slick courts, he had lost the first set, 6-2.“It’s not like he blew me off the court—the points were good,” Nguyen said. “But I made a lot of errors.”Down...
...Harvard strung together solid sequences of play, but they came in spurts. Whether a result of the weather or not, momentum shifted very quickly over the course of the game. “I think we could bring more intensity to games like this,” Mann said. Slick and damp from a morning downpour, the field prevented either team from gaining the upper hand. It was difficult to play quickly on the ground as passes and touches went astray. As a result, both teams ended up resorting to the long ball. “It?...