Word: slickly
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...Music Store's slick, easy-to-navigate interface is a welcome relief after free but controversial file-sharing programs like Kazaa. Still, there's room for improvement. Since Music Store works only on Macs (and then only on those with OS X), the other 97% of consumers who use PCs can't try it until a Windows version, promised by year's end, comes out. And the slender song library, lacking a single tune by Madonna or the Rolling Stones, needs beefing up too. --By Anita Hamilton...
Very early on the morning of May 10, 1883, a lighthouse keeper gazing out at the Sunda Strait, which separates Sumatra from Java, saw the surface of the ocean suddenly whiten, go still, then become oil-slick smooth. Like an unsuspecting sorority girl in a horror movie, he shrugged it off as insignificant--just part of the region's usual seismic background noise. Ninety-nine days later, the nearby volcanic island of Krakatoa exploded, producing probably the loudest sound heard in human history and killing more than 36,000 people...
...counselor, has been videotaping college tours since 1987. He has a library of 350 schools, which he updates about every five years; the tapes are $15 each. Though colleges send out their own videotapes, Kramon's videos, most of which last about an hour, have no background music or slick editing. "It's like your father took a tour and videotaped it," he says, which is why the camera tends to wobble as he follows the student tour guides. But Kramon's tapes offer a verisimilitude that schools may not appreciate. Rather than focus on students contemplating Plato...
...Better Luck Tomorrow, the suburban ennui is different from the ennui of the slick, impersonal American Beauty, but neither is it Not Another Teen Movie. Ben, Virgil, Daric and Han escape from privileged pre-college boredom through drugs, crime and violence...
Meet Stu (Colin Farrell), the kind of slick-suited used car salesman type who any dummy can tell is really insecure inside. Perhaps that’s why he’s cheating on his wife of less than a year with one of his clients, Pam (Katie Holmes). Stu calls Pam every day from the same phone booth, since his wife is on to him and has been checking his cellular bills. (Quick note to Dawson’s Creek fans and guys who might drop eight bucks on this flick just to see Holmes: she gets less screen...