Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Case in point: last season. The Crimson had one of the best goalies in the east, junior Jessica Milhollin. It had a stifling defensive backfield. It had a skilled string of halfbacks. And it had some slick-passing forwards. Still, it faired poorly in the win-loss department...
...Louis street urchin in 1924. Jaded beyond his years, with a side-of-the-mouth style of flip talk ("Well, shave my tonsils"), Walt recalls meeting the mysterious Master Yehudi, the man who would change his life: "We were standing in front of the Paradise Cafe, a slick downtown gin mill." "You're no better than an animal," the master greets him. "If you come with me, I'll teach...
...walked in (around 6:00 for the 2:30 showtime), it started to rain. After about 15 minutes, I decided I'd rather endure the drizzle and wander than sit and listen to more Blues Traveler. Guitarist Chan Cinchla's hair antics were more annoying than his slick ,soulless solos. John Popper is a very talented singer and a phenomenal harmonica player--all in all, someone I'd like to listen to, but first he's got to lose that guitar player...
...knows why the Clintons appear to have ignored the lesson of Watergate: the cover-up is invariably worse than the matters the participants seek to conceal. What we now do know, however, is that Mrs. Clinton is more like Mr. Clinton than anyone ever realized. Slick Willie, meet Slippery Hillary...
Elsewhere, savvy investors might have smelled a rat earlier. But this was postcommunist Russia, where capitalism is wild, woolly and new. The come-on, in any event, had been slick and seductive: pervasive TV commercials that wafted visions of apartments in Paris and vacations in California, and preposterous returns of 2,000% annually with no minimum investment. With those tactics, it did not take long for 5 million Russians to pour money into the offices of the MMM investment firm, the country's biggest and best-known stock fund...