Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With thousands of jobs at stake, industry leaders have launched a hard-sell campaign, dubbed U.S. Jobs Now, which features a slick video sent to Capitol Hill lawmakers. "We have a potential customer, and we're trying to make sure that customer gets a fair shake inside the U.S.," says John Capellupo, the president of McDonnell Aircraft. The contractors' argument is that if the U.S. turns down the deal, the Saudis will go to a European manufacturer. The Saudis have 96 F-15s, which they began acquiring in the early 1980s, but when the U.S. refused sales in mid-decade...
...pilgrims carry crosses on their journey, but this year they may feel inclined to brandish signs that say TOURISTS GO HOME! The source of their ire: New Mexico's tourism department, which is hyping the local shrine as the "Lourdes of America" in full-page ads in a dozen slick magazines, including Travel & Leisure, Holiday and Southern Living...
...these instruments, rather than simply programming them. The resulting combination of sophistication and sponteneity has earned Think Tree recognition on the local music scene and airplay on local radio, most notably on alternative giant WFNX. When asked about their musical influences, the band is unanimous on one point: "Not slick pop in any genre...
MOORE: Electronic, now, has come to mean slickness, largely because that's what it's employed for, because it can do so well making something sound really slick and nice. Electronics do that really easily and automatically. The cool samples, the factory samples, whatever. But to us, that is the abuse of that technology; that is exactly what music shouldn't be. Electronics doesn't equal slick to us. It just means a whole new palette of sounds, that if you use them creatively, can be the antithesis of slick, can be raw as hell. It depends...
...YORK--Image is a decisive vote-getting factor in the Empire State, and the "victory parties" thrown last night affirmed the perceived reputations of both "Slick Willie" Clinton and Edmund G. "Moonbeam" Brown...