Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baby Love uses the roof as an escape route from police. He jumps across a yawning chasm to the next building, then he is down the stairs and away. "We be doin' this when we drunk," says Baby Love with an impish smile. A born hustler, he is slick at pool and dice. He gambles Friday nights in front of BeeGee's candy store with men who feed him chiba chiba, a Puerto Rican expression for an especially potent kind of marijuana, the reefer that zoots...
...Latter group includes goalie Rick McNerndy, striker Kevin Maher--Yale's top scorer last season with 11 points--and honorable mention forward Mark Rozelles (6,2). Those three should provide a strong nucleus into which a crop of slick recruits...
Corliss, who views more than 500 films a year, is dismayed by what he sees as the "new conventionality and conformity" of the film industry. Says he: "Film makers have become more financially oriented, which means pandering to a younger audience with a taste for romantic comedies and slick horror films. At the current rate, senility should hit Hollywood about March of 1990." When he is not reviewing for TIME, Corliss is busy preparing new issues of Film Comment, a bimonthly journal (circ. 30,000) that he has edited since 1970. He has also written two books: Talking Pictures...
Television has proved far more effective. In Denver, the Legal Clinic of Sarney, Trattler & Waitkus credits four slick 30-second TV spots for a 35% boost in business. Says Partner Saul Sarney: "We're reaching a whole group of people who didn't know what their rights were and felt intimidated by lawyers." In one bankruptcy ad, a violin plays as workmen cart furniture out of a home and a voice intones: "When financial tragedy strikes, you don't have to lose everything ... There are laws to protect...
...time Menshov has spent trying to show, not simplify Katerina, makes it possible to show, not simplify her romance. And why? Because their affair is so clarly not Hollywood, and yet it's as close as you're ever likely to come. He refuses to make it easy and slick and dumb. It's a love affair against all odds, and though it will certainly lose in the end, it is as good as things can get without being celluloid...