Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interactive TV, the lines between advertisements, entertainment and services may grow fuzzy. A slick demonstration put together by programmers at Microsoft shows how that might be so. The presentation opens with a Seattle Mariners baseball game. By clicking a button on a mouse or remote control, a viewer can bring up a menu of options (displayed as buttons on the screen). Click on one, and the image of the batter at the plate shrinks to make room for the score and the player's stats - RBIs, home runs and batting average - updated with every pitch. Click again...
...last green was awfully slick putting downhill from the back," he said. "Still, I shouldn't have three-jacked...
...into full bloom when Clinton clashed with Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell on the gay issue. "Not since Carter has a President been so disliked by the military," said a Joint Chiefs staff officer. Uniformed personnel ranging from privates to generals routinely refer to their Commander in Chief as "Slick Willy" and "Draft Dodger." Beyond the financial affronts like Clinton's proposed government pay freeze, which will save $18 billion in military spending, the ranks are rife with bogus stories that Clinton forbids officers to wear their uniforms in the White House and that the First Lady refuses to ride...
...Magazine, for example, sung in an arid yet passionate rasp, Edwards muses on how literary works have been replaced on people's bookshelves by visually slick magazines featuring everything "from the absurd to the obscene." The haunting, slow-tempo Yellow Brown recalls the cyberpunk film Blade Runner; synthesizer bass notes drip like fat raindrops, and the sounds of droning machinery resonate. Edwards laments ecological destruction caused by technology: "In the city air, in all our seas, you can see every other color bleed into/ Yellow brown. There's nothing to save us from ourselves...
...France with her willfully vapid bubble-gum pop, Paradis, 19, has now made her self-titled American debut. For help in her songwriting and backup instrumentals, she chose producer Lenny Kravitz, the irony-free purveyor of heavy-handed homages to late-1960s rock. Together, Paradis and Kravitz make a slick but shallow couple. On cuts like Your Love Has Got a Handle on My Mind, Paradis's slinky, coquettish voice lightens Kravitz's ponderous touch, but even their best songs have a predictable, surface appeal and no emotional depth. If there were even a whisper of originality, this pairing might...