Word: slicking
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Politicians are known to be slick. Their rhetoric may be powerful and daring, but their positions often lack substance...
...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...
...sometimes Gabriel's lyrics betray his inexperience at writing love songs. Bad rhyme abounds. In "Secret World," Gabriel sings, "Seeing things that were not there/ On a wing, on a prayer/ In this state of disrepair." Us exhibits the same flaws as U2's generally slick Achtung Baby, lyrics suffer when the Irish protest band recorded a dance-rock album...
Such personages, however, got lost on the way to the casting of Singles, Cameron Crowe's slick new romance cum comedy cum melodrama...
...casual visitor, the chill, choppy waters of Prince William Sound show little evidence of the disaster that struck on Good Friday 1989. Nearly 11 million gal. of crude oil poured from a gash in the grounded tanker Exxon Valdez that day, forming a slick that eventually reached into the Gulf of Alaska and nearly to the Shumagin Islands, about 965 km (600 miles) away. More than 1,930 km (1,200 miles) of coastline was fouled; commercial and subsistence fishing were halted; populations of bald eagles, seabirds, otters and other animals plummeted; and at least 35 archaeological sites were sullied...