Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer lies primarily in the plot, which holds quite a few unconventional twists. This almost schizophrenic novel simply cannot decide whether it is a psychological drama of a woman's awakening to her own potential, or a slick, fast-paced, murder-and-arson thriller In trying to touch both bases. Piercy has had to sacrifice many of the best elements of either genre...
...crawfish than for drinking, discovering 73 carbon compounds; the town's sewerage and water board had to upgrade its purification program. It is a never-ending struggle. Even as New Orleans officials were savoring their victory, a barge accident 50 miles upriver sent a 200,000-gal. oil slick floating toward town, forcing the shutdown of some water-intake facilities...
...Those slick, well-financed campaigns were very effective last November--they scared people," said Alice Wolf, a city councilor...
...pastry when the girl takes too long to show up, and moments as gruesome as Noodles' back-seat rape of Deborah (Elizabeth McGovern), the only woman he ever loved. But America is, first and last, a European art film that rarely accelerates into the power drive of a slick Hollywood vehicle. Instead it tells its story in the form of a hashish pipedream conjured up by Noodles, slipping back to memories of 1921 and forward to a nightmare of 1968 as whim and reverie possess this gangster on the lam. Leone is less interested in arousing an audience...
...been laboring to dispel its old image and prevent the depressingly familiar slide into urban decay. New businesses have moved in, aided by tax breaks and lured by the city's location near the center of the nation. A once dreary downtown area has become slick and modern. Gleaming office towers, as well as a sports arena and an expanded convention center, decorate the skyline. A street paved with red bricks winds around venerable Monument Circle, lending new stateliness to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument with its slender 284-ft. limestone shaft. Indianapolis is feeling major league...