Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Slick television ads, whether negative or positive, have been instrumental in cheapening our political life. They are always focused on the personality of the candidate or his opponent. By their very nature, they are too short to offer any information of substance; instead they are usually designed to produce an unreasoned, emotional reaction...
...have just been massaged, pummeled -- and maybe had -- by some savvy movie publicists, the spin doctors of the entertainment industry. They operate in the slick new tradition of political handlers, whose job is to reduce a campaign to photo ops and sound bites, keep their candidates away from rancorous reporters and try, ever so discreetly, to manage the news. For a movie publicist, the methods and motives are the same; only the product is different. And by orchestrating the burgeoning infotainment press, a smart flack can detonate a bigger bang for the buck. Without spending a dollar on advertising (though...
...Slick Whip Moves...
...will be constrained to be graceful about it. Not laboring under any such constraint, I am free to say that the voters -- or at least a majority of them -- are idiots, betrayers of their country's future, misperceivers of their own best interests, ignorant about the issues, gulled by slick lies. Unless, of course, there's an upset. In that case, the voters have magnificently exercised their ingrained popular wisdom, vindicated the faith of the Founding Fathers, demonstrated the innate genius of democracy, etc., etc., etc. I knew it all along. Regarding my candidate for Senator, kindly reverse those...