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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, the advertisements featured seem to show more desperation than ingenuity. Rather than the wacky commercials you'd expect, the Cannes festival celebrates the more traditional (although admittedly slick) advertisement, showing a disappointingly large number of car, beer and perfume...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Hard Sell | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

...Undergraduate Council is back in session and, like a slick new car just off a Detroit assembly line, it's got a whole new look. Unfortunately, like many a revamped American cruiser, it has a shaky model history to go with...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: U.C. Forecast: Cloudy at Best | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...feel manipulated when Aaron ultimately comes out as the king of the hill, beating the odds of the Depression. Careful not to portray Aaron as a slick and smug Ferris Bueller type, Bradford plays him as a wide-eyed, ingenious little boy who is as amazeds as we are when he does triumph...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: Home Alone, for Real | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...billion people disagree with you, Mr. Ryan. One more billion and you'll right there with Slick Willy...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Flushing out The Mind | 10/1/1993 | See Source »

...Beavis and Butthead" is unusual because it parodies MTV, and satirizes the network's viewers. The two lead characters are crudely drawn figures, not slick, pretty veejays. They are early-pubescent morons, not post-pubescent rock icons...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: The Beavis Generation | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

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