Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson says.) Certainly his rivals have grasped his message, especially Richard Gephardt, who dramatized his anticorporate populism in a series of ads that led Michael Dukakis to say "That's Jesse's line." Jackson, picking up on that in a Des Moines debate, said he could not afford the slick ads, but sure enough, "That's my line. That's my line...
...dispute that the glitzy publicity is a slick promotional tool. "It's an opportunity to market themselves," says NBC Producer Linda Ellman, who worked with Maria Shriver in Los Angeles. "The more publicity they get, the more people are likely to watch them." The strongest detractors contend that any benefits may be illusory. By playing at being sex objects, they warn, even the most successful women run the risk of eroding their hard-earned credibility...
...Hampshire, it was Dole, not Bush, who launched the first strike. Several days after Iowa, the Dole campaign aired a slick, well-made ad featuring joint head shots of the Senator and the Vice President. The announcer listed areas in which Dole claimed that he had shown leadership -- Social Security, INF, tax cuts -- and then said in a stentorian voice, "George Bush had nothing to do with it." Each time, Bush's image faded a little more, until it finally vanished...
...event, the diesel fuel would have stayed on the surface, where it could have been trapped with floating rubber booms and sucked up with vacuum hoses. But in this case, by the time emergency cleanup crews arrived, the Monongahela's turbulent waters had begun to break up the oil slick and disperse it through the river's depth. The water and oil were further mixed as they tumbled over + locks and dams on the Monongahela and Ohio...
HOME FIRES (Showtime). Most TV family dramas are so slick and reassuring that this bruisingly realistic portrait of a middle-class clan in distress looked as if it had come from another planet. From the lack of attention it received, it might have...