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...case you don't get th' point about th' "disease," th' mother acts real paranoid about germs, n' a lamb gets maggots. Also, there's an impending plague of another sort: what th' son calls a "zombie invasion," zombies bein' all th' slick nobodies who're buyin' up land in th' West n' turnin' it into housin' developments n' shoppin' malls...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

...less thought, less work, and they would only be lumps. Tucker had taken a long look at Rodin, and it shows everywhere on his bronzes. The heavings and incrustations of their skins are, in fact, exquisitely organized to carry the eye around the form and leave no dead or slick patches on the surface. Groping, malleability, squeezing, thumbing bespeak a flat-out commitment to the tactile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gods, Chess and 28,000 Magazines | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...some countries, the influx of American news telecasts has rubbed off on domestic productions, which now copy the slick look of U.S. programs on their own news shows. Not long ago, Japanese broadcasts resembled a televised newspaper, long on talking heads, with little in the way of graphics or live news coverage. "The introduction of CNN to Japan has changed the way the other networks cover foreign news," says Keiji Koyama of Japan's TV Asahi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Global Village Tunes In | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

WORLD: The Afghanistan pullout signals a slick new Soviet foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...willing to publicly state theiropposition to the resolution, so they tried alittle slick maneuvering to kill the thing," saidLockwood, who sponsored February" anti-final clubresolution...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Council Reconsiders Final Clubs | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

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