Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CHESTNUT HILL--Last night, the wet turf of Boston College's Alumni Stadium was as slick as Bill Clinton, and the Harvard field hockey team just couldn't keep its footing as the Crimson lost to B.C., 1-0, and slipped to a damp 3-6-2 on the season...
...this year's political ads are surprisingly sober, businesslike and to the point. Gone, for the most part, are the warm, fuzzy "image ads" of campaigns past -- candidates frolicking with kids on the beach. There is little of the slick propagandizing of such ads as the famous anti-Goldwater spot from 1964 (a little girl with a daisy, interrupted by a mushroom-shaped cloud). Even the biting sarcasm that characterized the '88 campaign is largely missing: Bush's ironic use of clips showing Michael Dukakis taking a tank ride, or Dukakis' satiric depiction of Bush media advisers cynically discussing...
...signs read: "Vote Neil. He ain't slick, He ain't got Quaile, He don't quit, And he didn't inhale...
Welcome to amateur hour. Indeed, amateurism is now celebrated by Perot insiders as a boon in a season of finely crafted political double-talk and slick negative advertising. "This is anything but a professional organization," admits Orson Swindle, the top Perot lieutenant, called in to refurbish the sagging effort in the dark days following Perot's withdrawal. "We're all amateurs, but that's not a disadvantage. We've got the enthusiasm of the volunteers...
There are certainly times when Miller's monologue is a little too full of slick lines: when he asks God rhetorically why he has been spared death from AIDS while so many of his friends have died, or when he, as the spokesman for all gay men, urges them to "bare our souls and our buttholes." But his vision of life and love is enduring: lovers are "naked in the sight of each other, who are the only ones who matter," or, more bluntly: "We can't let these right-wing fuckheads tell us how to fuck...