Word: slickness
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Unfortunately Olsen never seems to have decided whether he wanted to write a serious book or a slick one. So much of the book is devoted to sour sexual confidences that one is forced to the conclusion that the author's eye was really trained on the bestseller list...
Developer David Santini, 39, a wealthy soil engineer, claims that his plastic slope is the "best artificial track in the world." It is covered with white polyethylene molded into bristly triangles and slick circles. Before taking off, skiers coat their skis with oil from a spinning roller. Although runs down the 1,200-ft. competition course reach speeds of 60 m.p.h., the synthetic snow seems unquestionably safer than the natural variety; no one has yet broken so much as a finger...
...first, the $1.50 paperback looks like another inspirational spin-off of the Jesus Revolution. Bearing the title The Life Story of Jesus, its slick cover shows a pastel Jesus in red-polka-dot robes (a poster version is available for another $1.50). But who is the author, Levi Alphaeus? The introduction says he was a Galilean tax collector who "later adopted the name Matthew." He is better known as St. Matthew the Evangelist. A California entrepreneur named Joseph Rank simply took Matthew's Gospel (from the New American Standard Bible, Rank admits), tricked it up in poetic format...
...most important dabblers in foreign exchange are not slick and selfish private operators but the sober-sided officers of banks and multinational corporations. Occasionally they try to turn a quick profit by capitalizing on oscillations in the value of one currency or another. But usually they are merely trying to protect a routine sale, loan or investment from loss due to an unexpected dip in some currency. Volkswagen, for example, takes in billions of dollars each year from U.S. sales. When the dollar quivered at the start of last summer's currency crisis, VW executives reportedly transferred as much...
...season is not wholly a faded festival of reruns. Sometimes the networks use it to examine talent on approval, testing prospects for possible recall during the dark days of winter. The newest and brightest experiment of this type is CBS's Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show, a slick, soulful variety series now subbing for the Carol Burnett Show...