Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, this is all but one side of the police force-the inside. To the rest of L.A., as portrayed in the tell-all rag penned by the repulsive Sid Hudgeons (an irritating-as-heck Danny DeVito), the police force is personified by the slick shining example of sartorial splendor, Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey). With busts carefully engineered through planted drugs or hommes fatales, Vincennes and Hudgeons put on a show for the public that leaves the face of the L.A. police indistinguishable from the ruthlessly just, squeakyclean "Dragnet"-type TV program Vincennes advises...
...This is pretty slick," said Donna L. Scheidt, a third-year law student. "Pound was awful because the lights were dim and it was too crowded...
...four bites out of it. I had never seen anything like it." Since then Klimley has analyzed more than 130 videotaped white-shark attacks. All seem to follow a pattern. The powerful first bite usually takes place underwater, and the first sign of an attack is often a blood slick on the surface. Within 20 min., a sea lion or seal pops to the surface with a big chunk taken out of it. Then the shark appears, seizes the carcass and finishes...
...discussing. This is not to say that frequent flashbacks to the bad old days--when the pair lived, squabbling and self-obsessed, in a rundown flat above a Chinese takeout restaurant--are finally any more conclusive. Or that the girls' chance encounters with figures out of that past--a slick, careless lover they once shared; a weird, enormous former roommate now lost to schizophrenia (and played with great and tender ferocity by Mark Benton)--are particularly illuminating...
After the media saturation and slick marketing of the largely untalented Spice Girls, I was pleasantly surprised by your article on the touring female music festival Lilith Fair [MUSIC, July 21]. These performers previously went almost unnoticed because they chose to make music that meant something to them, rather than attempt to become the next Big Thing...