Word: slicking
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However, Palazzo was so impressive, with his explosive speed and slick moves that the offense went to him more and more. He racked up some 100-yard games and Murphy was hooked...
...wish I could be a Yankee fan. I gave it up years ago, toward the end of the Reggie Jackson era. It was a great team then - Jackson, Winfield and the rest. I loved to watch Willie Randolph - slick, perfect, self-contained - at second. But there was the intolerable Steinbrenner, and you paid a price in the stands. A drunk always showered beer on you from the second deck and games with the Boston Red Sox would degenerate into tribal brawls after the sixth inning, when everyone had had enough suds to be a real moron...
...diversity. "Supreme," loosely based on Gloria Gaynor's classic "I Will Survive," is a short diversion into a mainstream pop sound. The ballads "Better Man" and "If It's Hurting You" demonstrate an impressive songwriting ability and unexpected emotional intensity. And the first single, "Rock DJ," is a funky, slick track with an insistent beat that takes hold of you and doesn...
...confession is in order: there are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or top prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism my Built-In Hit Detector. I squirm through these masterpieces of emotional pornography, jotting down derisive notes. Oh, if the contrivance is blatant enough, I may get a bit teary; it is, after all, no more difficult for filmmakers to make an audience cry by depicting, say, a child in jeopardy than it is for a lap dancer to evoke an erection in her client...
...suicidal political icon who finds solace when he begins to speak the truth--rather than his usual lip service--regardless of the consequences of his offensive, yet candid, remarks. And Primary Colors tells the story of an idealistic political aficionado seduced into organizing the presidential campaign of a slick southern governor...