Word: slickly
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...with the actors essaying roles and not racial caricatures. There are no Ebonics or broken accents found here. Nor does he fall into the trap of simply repeating what came before. For example, countless other films from Reservoir Dogs to Kiss of the Dragon have been nothing more than slick re-makes of Hong Kong movies. The One is neither. It is in a class all by itself...
...Summer days and summer nights are gone / I know a place where there’s still something going on.” Listening to the new Bob Dylan album after being subject to barrages of hip, carefully-controversial rap, or slick discs on which the artist has about as much to do with the sound as the cover photographer is a bit like walking from a high-powered cocktail reception into a raucous Irish pub. Suddenly the place is full of smoke, foot stamping music and competing voices in various states of unpredictability, love proclamations and self-declamation. Flipping...
This lipstick-slick spy thriller is the dramatic equivalent of a bumblebee--a preposterous bit of engineering that by every law of nature should never get off the ground, yet it flies magnificently. Creator J.J. Abrams (Felicity) had a brainstorm: What if Felicity's college-girl heroine, or someone like her, were recruited by the CIA to live a globe-hopping, karate-chopping double life? The result is an improbable, heart-pounding and-tugging mix of fantastical '60s spy chic and emotionally realistic drama that is less reminiscent of today's troubles than you might think. Grad student Sydney Bristow...
...indeterminate future, you stand in a crowd in the Great Glass Elevator. Like all elevators, this one comes wired for sound—soulless, slick, electronic muzak. Yet something is not quite right—rather than being the irritatingly-pacifying background-stuff, it keeps sneaking into your frontal lobes with growls of distortion, electronic shrieks and incendiary little licks. As the elevator gathers pace, your colleagues strip off their suit-jackets and ties, and the elevator becomes a sky-rocketing disco?...
...first single from the album, the Stranglers’ “Strange Little Girl,” is the sort of quirky, electronic-influenced rock that Tori perfected on Venus, and will undoubtedly turn quite a few heads with its slick, sexy, guitar-driven hook. However, those who are drawn by this track alone will be deceived; though “Rattlesnakes” borders on the same territory, the bulk of the album explores radically different, uncharted ground. Her take on Tom Waits’ “Time,” is, despite the quantum difference...