Word: slicking
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...polyturf did matter. It was hard and it was slick, and for those unaccustomed to it, it's a decided disadvantage. Polyturf turns field hockey into ice hockey. It changes the nature of soccer, as sharp passes become missed opportunities, little chip shots the stuff from which goals are made...
...glossy message, carefully designed and stated. There are not bad cuts, but there are several excellent ones. "Aja" and "Deacon Blues" stand as the album's keystones, musically leading the way, lyrically and philosophically into another stage of Steely Dan's growth. The horns and sax are slick, and the sound bottoms out with creditable vibes by Victor Fedlman...
...succession of one-night lovers. Tuesday Weld provides an unmemorable contrast to Keaton as Dunn's capricious older sister Katherine, relying too heavily on the character's caricaturish wackiness to carry her through the part. Richard Brooks' direction and adaption of Judith Rossner's best-selling novel is sufficiently slick to draw crowds to the box office, but the film can be filed as another victim of the typical superficiality of American movies. Sharp witticisms and flashy techniques keep the movie's pace upbeat, while Brooks neglects Dunn's broader significance as a prototypical single woman vainly coping with today...
...dozen imaginative sequences in which their characters-and characterizations-take wing. Using a cheerfully baroque style, free flowing and strong in color and design, the Italians have matched the richness that Disney's animators developed in their great, early years, before their boss forced them into the slick, highly conventionalized mode that has dulled his studio's work ever since Fantasia's early commercial failure. (In rerelease, of course, the movie has been enormously successful...
Safire less frequently bashes Republicans, but he has publicly disowned Spiro Agnew for his anti-Semitism and criticized Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger for encouraging rebellion among Iraq's Kurds and then refusing to aid them. A slick stylist with a sweet tooth for bon mots, Safire resisted obvious puns on the Kurds but drops groaners like "Zbig Government," and "Yamani or ya life...