Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heard in every part of the globe by early next year. A syndicated TV series (first monthly, later weekly) was introduced in 1985 and was seen on 103 stations before being supplanted this fall by the nightly newscast. This month also marks the debut of World Monitor, a slick monthly magazine on global affairs that hit its target of 250,000 subscriptions after just five weeks of marketing...
...tunes adorn the show wherever possible; a cover story on kids today (part of a five- part series on, no less, "living in the U.S.A.") was little more than an excuse to trot out scenes from Our Gang comedies. The show's animated graphics are state-of-the-art slick, and its four anchors state-of-the-art cute. But little stays on the screen long enough to register, and anything that does hardly seems worth the trouble. We hate...
...furniture, gas and furniture...I don't know...a match was involved. It's physics, I dunno, you tell me...So Frank went out to make his way in the world of entertainment..." And so we meet Frank heading out for his wild years, with his slick mustache, black and red smoking jacket, three-inch cigarrette holder, greased back hair, and sad crazy eyes. Frank works as an usher, peering wistfully through the doors at the stage where Waits performs...
...school students take water samples, and island dwellers have been trained in what to do if they spot an oil spill. Says Seattle Water-Quality Planner Hubbard: "Bridgetenders are great at calling in with violations. They are up high, and when they see a black scum or a little slick, they let us know about...
...mandolin that kick tunes like One True Love out of the country and into the cosmos. Their two CBS albums (the recent Tired of the Runnin' has made it to No. 21 on the country charts and spawned a Top 5 single besides) are flawless but far from slick. At their frequent best, the O'Kanes can plunge back farther than Nashville, all the way to the spooky, spiritual mountain music of the Carter Family and the Tenneva Ramblers. "I don't recognize it," admitted a brand-new O'Kanes fan at a recent Rochester concert. "But I like...