Word: slicking
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...divorced twice. She tried going into the family business, acting, but without great success. She drifted into what she calls "the talk business," serving as hostess on TV talk shows in San Francisco, then Los Angeles. For the past 18 months she has been editor of Showcase U.S.A., a slick bimonthly designed to promote sales abroad...
Then last month the church really caused a furor by pulling off a slick real estate coup to obtain the Cardinal Gushing Villa, a 30-room retreat house, from the Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception, a Connecticut-based order of nuns. The sisters were known to have been opposed to dealing with the Moonies. They sold the property for $1 million to New Hampshire Businessman Myron Block, who turned out to be in cahoots with the Unification Church. The next day, Block sold the retreat to the Moonies for $1,127,000. In addition, just two weeks...
UNLIKE MANY RECENT American movies, which often leave behind the sour aftertaste of burnt pizza, cute French petit-fours such as Coup de Tete impart no flavor at all. They slide down smoothly, provincial realism and honest emotion buried beneath the sweet, slick icing of a clever plot and anti-bourgeois humor...
That he likes bad characters, bad plots, and bad endings? It doesn't seem fair to criticize Erich Segal '58 for making a buck the easiest way he knows how. After all, he would probably be the first to admit the slick vapidness of his "novels." Because, of course, they are not novels...
...duck their heads and try to speed away from the fusillade of bricks, bottles and bullets aimed at their cars. "There's one, that's a white one!" a black screamed as a yellow Toyota passed an intersection. The driver spun his wheels frantically in an oil slick before escaping the approaching mob. Recalled white Motorist Jim Davis: "The police had put up a roadblock. I couldn't get around it. I went into a U-turn, but my car stalled and they came running at me. I heard them scream, 'Honky...