Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avid yachtsman, Hoyle has had a close view of environmental damage at sea. "The problem becomes vivid when you sail into an oil slick and have to spend several days cleaning up the boat." The impact of man-made substances on weather shifts is much harder to detect. "You can't see it, touch it or smell it," says Hoyle. "That is precisely what makes the scientific discovery process so important." And precisely what makes this week's cover story such a good detective yarn...
Writer-director Lowenstein uses glossy images and clever camera angles to give the movie a slick, high-tech look in the same vacuous MTV style of his INXS videos. The movie looks great, but is so hopelessly vapid that it hardly matters. This emptiness is due to Lowenstein's complete neglect of some of the niceties of movie-making--plot and character...
Missing starting wingback Amanda Slick, an injury-ridden Crimson squad took on the Huskies in a physical game highlighed by controlled ball-handling and passing combinations. UConn--using a strategy that the Crimson has fallen prey to in the past--began to spread out the Harvard defense with patient ball-movement and give-and-go passing...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard's Lori Barry, Cari Lyn Beck and Jen Gifford were forced to leave the field because of injuries, but all are expected to be ready for this weekend...Slick is scheduled for an arthroscope today to determine the extent of her knee injury...The Crimson defense successfully shut down Britton Arico, UConn's leading scorer...The Crimson meets Dartmouth's Big Green in an Ivy grudge match Saturday at 11 a.m. at Ohiri Field...
...same anguished question might be asked by today's voters of the Democrats who propose to capture the White House next year. Unlike the ballplayers on that woeful expansion team of a quarter-century ago, the Democratic candidates were supposed to be slick, blooded pros who could project an attractive image of cool competence. Instead, they have been putting on a tangle-footed show reminiscent of the blunders that made the original Mets a synonym for ineptitude...