Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Universe Books has come up with something that may appeal to people who find all the slick new calendars a bit too much. It offers a generic model titled No Frills '84. The calendar simply provides the date and sells for $2.50. -By Stephen Koepp...
Undercover (Rolling Stones/Atlantic) begins with the Rolling Stones doing a kind of ghetto-blaster version of Sympathy for the Devil called Undercover of the Night. Like much of the best Stones stuff, this song is a dance through a nightmare, behind a slick, heavy beat that is unmistakably contemporary and irresistibly funky. The lyrics make scary references to "100,000 disparus lost in the jails in South America" and "The smell of sex/ The smell of suicide." Undercover of the Night launches two sides of grizzly humor, humid sexuality and gut-level rock. The song titles-Too Much Blood...
Another artist of atrocity, Brian De Palma, took notes from the Hollywood siren too. Much of his cinematic vocabulary comes straight from the old masters: the razor-slick strategies of a Hitchcock murder sequence, the sass and spitfire of a Howard Hawks comedy, the swooping voyeurism of a Vincente Minnelli crane shot. Here De Palma applies his film-school expertise to Oliver Stone's script to fashion a big, bloody, entertaining tragicomedy that functions both as tabloid journalism (The Rise and Fall of a Drug King) and as cautionary fable. Tony Montana may be exterminated by the hired guns...
...Deft with the hockey stick," it says of the Catamount center, "he is a slick playmaker." With a half-minute gone in sudden death overtime Saturday night at Bright Hockey Center, Crowley started to carry the puck from behind...
...John Harvard was not just a commitment to the expanding horizons of knowledge but to upholding the torch and democracy round the world. Benigno Acqaino's years at Harvard will I hope, be looked upon with pride in the annals of a great university. Jagat S. Mehta Tom Slick Professor of World Peace (former Foreign Secretary of the Government of India) The University of Texas