Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like all serious evils, this behavior takes many forms. One instance of this rhetorical recklessness outstrips most others in sheer power and elan. In one deployment it works all kinds of slick magic: it saves the speaker from accountability, establishes (wink-wink) an intimacy with the listener that only a shared and special secret can provide, even wields rhetorical power over space, time and motion. Science cores would do well to study this phenomenon. The phrase?: Happy Belated Birthday...
...They've got no luck. We've got all the luck. Harvard's last three Beanpot championships have fallen on inauguration years (`89,`81,`77). If you include Ford (he's easy to forget), make it the last five championships (we won in `74 and `69). The luck of Slick Willy, nod to Harvard...
...trip from Norway to Canada, much of the visible evidence of the spill had disappeared. The water in the immediate area around the wreck still had patches of oil churning below the surface. But farther out, the sea had returned to its azure state, and there was no spreading slick. While some beaches were stained by puddles of ooze characteristic of spills, the damage to the coast was far from catastrophic...
...aground Tuesday after its engines failed during a storm. A few hours before the ship hit the rocks, helicopters took the crew off, so no one was aboard to secure a line to a rescue tug. As rough seas kept salvors from pumping off the remaining crude, the slick threatened to kill thousands of birds. The Braer's operator, Bergvall & Hudner, said its $700 million in insurance will cover damage claims...
...BOTTOM LINE: In this slick but surface biography, a powerful media tycoon is just a man who can't say no to more...