Word: slicks
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...Texas, are making sure the Lord is not outgunned. Their junior high worship area features a million-dollar sound system and mammoth movie screens that play to an audience of as many as 1,000 teenagers on Sundays. Prestonwood's executive pastor, Mike Buster, makes no apologies for the slick production values. It takes a good show to expose kids to the good word, he says, because there is so much competition from what he calls a "perverted" teen culture...
...next destination mall to be built on Thonglor was J-Avenue, an upscale venture that's crammed to its trendy rafters with caf?s, bars and slick emporiums. Then a three-storied, $9.5 million extravaganza called Playground, tel: (66-2) 714 7888, opened its doors. Billed as Thailand's "first superchic concept store," Playground offers a sprawling selection of fashion, jewelry, books, art and furniture. The goods are the creation of homegrown designers (check out Prin Sachakul's hot clothing label, the Oddyssee) as well as overseas names (don't miss the must-have housewares by Amsterdam's Droog Design...
...into the pants and hearts of the audience, the movie uses as many ruses as the guys. Damned if most of them don't work. Wedding Crashers is a slick operation, and Vaughn and Wilson are a couple of three-card-monte dealers whose patter is so engaging, you may not mind being swindled into thinking this is a really good movie...
Blair's detractors condemn him as addicted to packaging and spin, and it's true he's slick at the arts of modern political communication. But they miss how naturally resolve comes to him. His performance last week was that of a man in full, an act of deftly judged juggling between directing his government's response to the bombings and trying to make sure the G-8 meeting of world leaders he was chairing at Gleneagles, a bucolic resort in Scotland, came to the ambitious conclusion on relieving African poverty that he has been straining to achieve...
...slick new cable service, TelShop, a joint venture of Financial News Network and Comp-U-Card International, expects to lure bigger spenders with such attractions as videocassette recorders, vacation packages and exercise bicycles. Another upscale contender, Shop Television Network, which will officially hit the airwaves next week, hopes to stand out from competitors by featuring a celebrity host, Singer Pat Boone, and guest experts like Figure Skater Scott Hamilton...