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...life, and Kelley's most substantial contribution to the inside story, may have been Sinatra's mother Dolly, an abortionist, ward politician and all-round force of nature who clawed her way up from poverty in Hoboken, saw to it that her high-school-dropout son always had slick clothes and spending money, and helped set up his first singing gigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Thumb in the Public Eye His Way:The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...rock vocabulary, is slick suburban territory, the place where Billy Joel dwells, and it is no address for a low-key aesthetic incendiary like Byrne. By implying that Heads music is nibbling on pop- corn, Byrne is being provocative, as is his habit, and canny, as is his nature. The songs in True Stories are kickback good-times music, but Byrne means to do with this score what he and the Heads have always done: infiltrate a genre, work inside it and make it over before anyone realizes quite what is happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Renaissance Man | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

Instead, the crowd speculated about the enormity of the evil in Falwell's true heart and seemed particularly satisfied that they could see through his slick presentation...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: He Got Off Too Easy | 10/11/1986 | See Source »

Sweet deliverance! Finally a dance anyone can do -- a fast dance, a hot dance -- without looking like a candidate for a physical-rehabilitation class. A little flame and no shame. Slick stepping and sexy navigating, with no bruised knees. And no characters on the floor making jokes about the rhythmic capabilities of most native North Americans. "It's a very simple dance, not complicated," says Gloria Senor, who, with her husband, runs a dance band in Miami. "It's a two-step." It's the merengue. It's bliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: You Can't Stop Dancing | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

Kennedy, 33, eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, used a slick advertising campaign, a late endorsement from O'Neill and a strong get-out-the-vote operation to win 52.4% of the ballots. The closest of his rivals, State Senator George Bachrach, got 30.2%. Kennedy now faces Republican Businessman Clark Abt, who is given almost no chance. When family members gathered for a victory party, Senator Edward Kennedy, Joe's uncle, quipped, "I'm delighted Joe decided to run for the Eighth and not against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massachusetts: Joe Kennedy's First Hurrah | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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