Word: slickly
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...plus 1 of the market. Nader is a niche product; he's like a UPN show trying to capture 5% of the audience. Whereas for the Big Two, clever is dangerous. You can inadvertently alienate important sectors of the electorate (for instance, the stupid) or come off as slick and dishonest. Since Watergate, ads have been much more straightforward--and artless. When the media landscape is carpet-bombed with ugly, blaring ads, perhaps every ad, regardless of its content, becomes a negative...
...plus 1 of the market. Nader is a niche product; he's like a UPN show, trying to capture 5 percent of the audience. Whereas for the Big Two, clever is dangerous. You can inadvertently alienate important sectors of the electorate (for instance, the stupid) or come off as slick and dishonest. Since Watergate, ads have been much more straightforward - and artless. When the media landscape is carpet-bombed with ugly, blaring ads, perhaps every ad, regardless of its content, becomes a negative...
...intent: he is experimenting "in an attempt to see if everything can inhabit the same visual space," she calls her sculptures "collages," each one "a conglomerate of many passing ideas." Burckhardt works with enamel on wood-his paintings, all roughly the size of a sheet of notebook paper, are slick, colorful meditations somewhere between Dr. Seuss and Kandinsky. He often allows shapes in the underpainting to flicker through the top layer of images, struggling for more dimensions than his medium allows...
However, Palazzo was so impressive, with his explosive speed and slick moves that the offense went to him more and more. He racked up some 100-yard games and Murphy was hooked...
...wish I could be a Yankee fan. I gave it up years ago, toward the end of the Reggie Jackson era. It was a great team then - Jackson, Winfield and the rest. I loved to watch Willie Randolph - slick, perfect, self-contained - at second. But there was the intolerable Steinbrenner, and you paid a price in the stands. A drunk always showered beer on you from the second deck and games with the Boston Red Sox would degenerate into tribal brawls after the sixth inning, when everyone had had enough suds to be a real moron...