Word: slickly
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...Eric Clapton and B.B. King/"Riding With the King" It took making an album with his hero to shed the slick pop that has made him millions (and put fans of his guitar playing to sleep), but Eric Clapton rose to the difficult occasion of making a decent blues studio album (although the picture of the two jamming in the '60s - a Hendrix-permed Clapton, B.B. with a processed 'do - would have been worth the price of the CD by itself). There's too much going on in the background (why bring in two more guitar players?) but the song...
Sabotage! They paved the road while we were gone! I saw the telltale slick black strips of tar at the margins...
...death," so Mark moves in to help, but it's too late. McAuliffe is even slicker than his buddy Bill Clinton. "I agree," he says disarmingly, blaming Republicans. Until they push a bill through, he carps, he's forced to try beating them at their own game. This is slick, it's quick, it's a crock. Mark tries to recover, but McAuliffe is in retreat. Later, leaving his own party, he stops at the MCAULIFFE--CORPORATE PIMP sign and autographs it. Oh, the chutzpah...
...Against the Machine concert outside the Staples Center ("Does that qualify as a mosh pit?" asked Fox's Brit Hume) and trolling for celebrities to fill the space between Michael Beschloss segments. All but PBS, which wouldn't air Melissa Etheridge singing "America the Beautiful" but did air a slick DNC video about a welfare mother who opened her own business - that, apparently, does not count as a packaged showbiz event...
...seems every other surfer and skateboarder is into golf," says Will McCulloch, 25, a U.X. Open player and managing editor of Schwing!--a slick, year-old magazine that reaches an estimated 68,000 punkish players of both conventional and extreme golf. "The game isn't just for geeks or old, white men anymore," adds Adrian Young, 30, who plays drums for the rock band No Doubt and boasts an 8 handicap. The National Golf Foundation reports that 57% of all current players are younger than...