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Word: slicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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This group of women owes a stepsisterly debt to Madonna. They are singers who have molded a slick look, cool moves and a crafty urban sound into a commanding cultural presence. One crucial difference is that Madonna now dwells in the realms of rarefied pop; she is a totem of high fashion. Jackson, Abdul, Watley and Estefan have a more vigorous immediacy. They seem, whatever their success, cozier with the kids, closer to the street corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Dancing On the Charts | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...With slick looks, cool moves and a crafty urban sound, singers Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jody Watley and Gloria Estefan have danced to the top of the charts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: May 28, 1990 | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...idea seems a natural. Like print magazines, video magazines are published on a regular basis (usually bimonthly or quarterly) and are sold by subscription as well as individually (average cost: about $20 an issue). The genre was launched in 1981 with Videofashion Monthly, a slick roundup of fashion news, and a handful of other video magazines came and went during the '80s. Now the proliferation of VCRs (in nearly 70% of U.S. homes today), and the growing number of people who are buying and not just renting tapes, have inspired a host of entrepreneurs to give the infant field another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Tape-Of-the-month Club | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

Shown on TV stations throughout California starting last week, the devastatingly direct commercial was the opening salvo in the state's new $28.6 million advertising war against smoking. The California blitz is designed to counter the slick marketing efforts of tobacco firms with equally sophisticated TV, radio and newspaper ads. The goal: to persuade 5 million of the state's 7 million smokers to kick the habit by the end of the decade. Most ironic of all is that the campaign will be financed by smokers through a new 25 cents-a-pack cigarette tax. Says Thomas Lauria, a spokesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Volunteer Vice Squad | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...Networking" evokes images of power lunches between slimy, cigartoting bosses and slick sycophants with suspenders and numerals after their names. But there is nothing illegal about making or using connections...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Complex But Correct. . . | 3/22/1990 | See Source »

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