Word: slickness
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...HAND, Reagan and company are only fighting part of the problem. Attacking "hardcore" drugs--including cocaine, crack, and heroin--is a slick political move. Users are universally held in low esteem and are commonly regarded less as victims than as criminals. On this issue, a politician just can't lose...
...road ahead for Honda may become treacherous as competitors begin offering greater financial lures and slick new models. Most auto experts, however, consider that the upstart has now established itself as the kind of contender that much bigger U.S. automakers would do well to watch closely. One reason for keeping a close eye on the feisty company could be seen last September when Marysville changed over from building 1985 Accords to the 1986 model, a process that required a near total retooling of the assembly line. In many U.S.-owned plants, such a changeover can consume several days, even weeks...
Parties such as this one celebrate the University's partisan pride, not a Harvard history checkered with religious, ethnic and sexual bigotry, parochialism and snobbery. The remberances are as facile as the celebration is slick...
With Miami Vice and his terrific debut feature Thief, Writer-Director Michael Mann honed his nouveau slick style: a strong silent leading man with a superb supporting cast, a flair for intelligent camerabatics, a bold, controlled color scheme, an assertive avant-rock sound track. Here he has found another subject to suit that disquieting style. Manhunter should keep viewers riveted throughout, and queasy through the next full moon...
...Americans, the Seattle Ring is not in the vocal class of Bayreuth, the Met or San Francisco. Yet Sooter gives a strong, noble account of himself, as does Baritone Julian Patrick as a robust, crafty Alberich. Soprano Johanna Meier makes a touching, feminine Sieglinde and Tenor Emile Belcourt a slick Loge. In the crucial role of Brunnhilde, Soprano Linda Kelm displays a huge voice and an enviable ease of vocal production, but she needs more refinement and a better stage presence before the part will belong to her. Presiding musically is an unlikely figure: Manuel Rosenthal, 82, a French conductor...