Word: slickly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ANGELO, VOODOO: Slick as chicken grease. Hotter than summer asphalt. D'Angelo summoned old ghosts - Jimi and Marvin - and woke up a new artistic spirit in R&B. Voodoo is a ménage à trois of soul, hip-hop and jazz, all tangled up like lovers caught in the act. Even as D'Angelo pays homage to music's past, he proves the future is in good hands...
...live without it. Had either candidate discovered a better way to sell themselves to the "electoral consumer," we never would have gotten into the pickle we're in. I suppose that on some level, it's nice to see that the American populace isn't wholly seduced by slick advertising; that our presidential election has more meaning than an elementary school student council election, where the kid that became president was the one with the coolest posters, who broke the rules by passing out candy at recess...
...Maybe he's not mister slick urbanite, but he is a really likeable guy, the cute cuddly CS concentrator that everyone loves," says Todd E. Plants '01, vice-chair of the Student Affairs Committee (SAC), the committee which Gusmorino chairs. "Whenever I'm walking in the yard with Paul, it seems he knows and says 'Hi' to everybody. He always has something nice...
...haired women, has presided over an administration whose sleaze and mediocrity have been well-suited to our meretricious, self-satisfied epoch. Clinton has thrived in a time when Americans are more interested in the color of money than the content of their leaders' character, and so we have allowed Slick Willie's solid economic stewardship to trump his betrayals of trust, the corruption of his cronies and his outrageously sordid personal life...
Given the John Henry-vs.-the steam-drill conflict in modern justice, the surprise hit of the new TV season is not such a surprise. CSI (CBS, Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T.), a slick, formulaic crime drama set in Las Vegas, is a cop show with a twist: the heroes are crime-scene investigators (CSIs), forensic scientists who use high-tech tools to nab crooks. The show has a certain Vegas-y rock-'n'-roll sleaze appeal, but underneath it all, CSI is the geek Quincy, in which the true stars are the nail clippings, computer records, carpet fibers and above...