Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show's wardrobe department, and some of the cool was donated by the adoring host? The image that came across on TV was that of a relaxed, self-deprecating candidate ("That's how I learned to inhale -- playing my saxophone") far different from the too-eager-to-please Slick Willie persona of the early primaries...
...that his marble carvings, finished to an extreme degree of perfection, run counter to the belief in the rugged, the unfinished and the visibly sincere that descends to us from Michelangelo and Rodin. Nor is it simply that one is anesthetized to him by his progeny -- the horde of slick, sentimental "classic" sculptors whose white memorials populate every 19th century graveyard in Europe. The basic reason is that Canova's assumptions about what sculpture ought to be and do, based on his total, adoring immersion in the ideal of the Antique, are lost...
...candidate direct questions about his stepfather's drinking and violence. Clinton told more about his past as court records came to light and as his younger brother described their home to reporters. "One of the frustrating things about this whole deal, this nationwide attempt to make me look slick -- to which I may have contributed -- is that people expect me to remember things I don't remember all of, or to share things I thought I was never supposed to share. I mean, it's a strange sort of deal...
More than anything, the 76th running of the Indianapolis 500 resembled a war of attrition. Of the 33 drivers who started last week's prestigious annual auto race, only 12 finished. Along the way, slick tires, miserable cold and over-powered engines induced 10 heart-stopping crashes that sent 13 drivers to the hospital and 13 of the $500,000 race cars to the junkyard. But winner Al Unser Jr., 30, whose .043-second margin was the tightest win in Indy history, insists car speed has not outpaced car safety. Says he: "Safety technology is doing great right...
Voters like Ross Perot because he's a doer--and as a slick political operator and autocrat, he would no doubt "get things done" as president. But what "things"? If we are going to grant this guy so much power, we should get some idea of what he would do with...