Word: slicks
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James has constructed a slick and engaging plot for A Taste for Death. But what makes her work more than just well-polished fiction is her consistently vivid characterizations and keen insights into daily human experience. Aside from a solid mystery, A Taste for Death is an effective psychological exploration of post-war British culture. James investigates the social mores of a defunct nobility and the predicaments of the working class, as well as the poltical attitudes of radical Labour extremists...
...life, and Kelley's most substantial contribution to the inside story, may have been Sinatra's mother Dolly, an abortionist, ward politician and all-round force of nature who clawed her way up from poverty in Hoboken, saw to it that her high-school-dropout son always had slick clothes and spending money, and helped set up his first singing gigs...
...rock vocabulary, is slick suburban territory, the place where Billy Joel dwells, and it is no address for a low-key aesthetic incendiary like Byrne. By implying that Heads music is nibbling on pop- corn, Byrne is being provocative, as is his habit, and canny, as is his nature. The songs in True Stories are kickback good-times music, but Byrne means to do with this score what he and the Heads have always done: infiltrate a genre, work inside it and make it over before anyone realizes quite what is happening...
Instead, the crowd speculated about the enormity of the evil in Falwell's true heart and seemed particularly satisfied that they could see through his slick presentation...
Sweet deliverance! Finally a dance anyone can do -- a fast dance, a hot dance -- without looking like a candidate for a physical-rehabilitation class. A little flame and no shame. Slick stepping and sexy navigating, with no bruised knees. And no characters on the floor making jokes about the rhythmic capabilities of most native North Americans. "It's a very simple dance, not complicated," says Gloria Senor, who, with her husband, runs a dance band in Miami. "It's a two-step." It's the merengue. It's bliss...