Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Co-Captain Ellen Sackaroff, an Oceanside, N.Y. native, is the slick-fielding Crimson shortstop. Although a shortstop is not expected to be a great hitter, Wentzell says Sackaroff "is swinging the bat well...
...Grace Slick, 40, rock vocalist with the 1960s Jefferson Airplane (later Starship), on the apolitical content of lyrics in the 1980s: "If you wanted to write a song that directly affected the problems of today's college student, it would deal with the perils of being a preppie...
...Slick Six's inaugural launch in October 1985 will employ the newest shuttle, Discovery, now being checked out at Cape Canaveral. The exact mission will be top secret, as will all shuttle flights from Air Force-run Vandenberg, but it has been reported that the main job on that first flight will be to ferry two satellites into space. Since Discovery will be placed in a polar orbit, its ground track will cover the Soviet Union. One of those satellites could be a new hush-hush communications package, and the other a device equipped with infrared sensors to spot...
...curiosity and ours, the author eases into a town where death has been done. If a trial is going on, so much the better; people can be made to answer at a trial, and the ring of lie clanking against truth tells something about them. A slick Florida lawyer has been shot to death and left to ruin the upholstery of his fancy car. A feud among Mexican Americans in Riverside, Calif., feeds on itself so long and so bloodily that one participant admits being in jail is a relief. Three acquaintances booze away the afternoon in a country...
Until now, rock mockery on the grand scale pretty much began and ended with the Beatles. A Hard Day's Night was in part a joke documentary, while Help! functioned as both parody and prophecy of MTV'S slick surrealism, Spinal Tap forfeits the good will associated with the Beatles for something more bizarre and desperate. For all its japes and jokes, the movie is really about exhaustion of the spirit: sitting in a bleak hotel suite at 4 a.m. with the bad taste of last night in the mouth and the feeling that tomorrow will...