Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have served in recent years as Attorney General have brought different approaches to the job: flamboyant activist (Bobby Kennedy), judicial academic (Edward Levi, chosen by Ford), slick wheeler-dealer (Nixon's-and Watergate's-John Mitchell). William French Smith, 64, is, above all, a discreet and reticent corporate lawyer, dedicated to serving his once and present client, Ronald Reagan. This conservatism, in both philosophy and style, has been the hallmark of Smith's tenure at the Justice Department...
...offcast, are emblematic of the care with which Whose Life has been made. One is by Bob Balaban as Ken's attorney. This is the third time this year that Balaban has played a lawyer (Prince of the City and Absence of Malice are the others), but the slick prosecutor of his earlier outings has here given way to a stammering humanism. The other is by Ken McMillan, the vulgarian of True Confessions and Ragtime, here playing a civilized judge agonizing over the rights and wrongs of Ken's plea for radical redress of a radical grievance...
Absence of Malice is a slick, commercial movie that determinedly hammers away at these questions in the context of journalistic responsibility. In its desperate attempt to condense answers to insoluble problems into pithy, easily understandable maxims, the film subordinates characters and plot to an almighty Message, and the film becomes undramatic and uninteresting...
Proposition 2 1/2--the rash, extreme tax cut approved a year ago by Bay State voters--had thrown yet another monkey wrench in the workings of city government. Fagone and his DPW crews were operating at half speed this weekend, and as a result the city's streets were unnecessarily slick and dangerous, and the city's public schools needlessly closed. And it will be worse next time, for the DPW budget is now drained. "It's going to be an enjoyable winter," Fagone said with a grim chuckle. "From now on, we're just going to watch it fall...
...happened in all of the previous outings this year, the Crimson could not maintain the momentum. The offensive attack--which had clicked so smoothly just minutes before--began to misfire. The drives to the basket, the slick passing, the sharp-shooting--both from the inside and out--disappeared. In its place, unsteady, indecisive offense began to emerge...