Word: slickness
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More upscale in taste and budget? Do you search for designer knockoffs and value the Liz Claiborne-Cable Car look? Do a $10 lunch and a $14 dinner (including a glass of wine) sound good as long as you get trendy food in a slick grill-bistro setting? Then hope that within the next two or three years yours is one of the ten or twelve cities that will get the Daily Grill, created by the management that owns the pricey Grill in Beverly Hills...
BANGLES EVERYTHING (Columbia). Cool sex and hot rhythm from four women rockers. Crash and Burn tells the story: funny, flinty and slick enough to slide into your heart like a knife...
BANGLES EVERYTHING (Columbia). Cool sex and hot rhythm from four women rockers. Crash and Burn tells the story: funny, flinty and slick enough to slide into your heart like a knife...
...music is a psalm and, for Philip, a therapeutic balm. In the final shot of The Singing Detective, Marlow the writer is able to walk out of the hospital in the guise of Marlow the slick detective. "He's stopped lying there moaning and suffering," Potter observes, "ready to deal with the world as a detective would -- tough-minded and able to manipulate it." In the pain- streaked world of Dennis Potter, that counts as a happy ending: hero cured, beautiful woman on his arm, and Vera Lynn warbling We'll Meet Again in the tuppenny jukebox of his soul...
When the biggest hand of an operatic evening is not for the singers -- Leona Mitchell as the eponymous Ethiopian slave girl, Placido Domingo as her hapless Egyptian lover Radames -- but for towering sets and slick stage machinery, then the era of content-free opera is at hand. Under the artistic direction of James Levine and departing general manager Bruce Crawford, the Met has ( suffered from a hardening of its arteries, offering up one lumbering spectacle after another without much apparent thought as to whether they make artistic sense...