Word: slicks
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They’ve approached Dartboard’s desk many a time, equipped with flashlights and slick uniforms. At the first hint of menacing footsteps, Dartboard frantically scrambles her wrappers together, chucking soda bottles and sandwiches under her chair. But on those sad occasions when Dartboard is caught off guard, a somber patroller pulls out the dreaded paper copy of the library’s food and drink policy, sternly pointing to the illicit goods. They assume, optimistically, that after Dartboard reads those sacred words, she’ll remember to respect the library’s laws...
Junior Lauren Bettinelli came in to relieve Brotemarkle in the tenth, and immediately benefited from slick fielding by Goldberg and Stefanchik, who each made great plays to keep runners of the base paths. Bettinelli had started the game for Harvard and went four scoreless innings before giving way to freshman Becky Voaklander in the fifth...
...Sicilian kitsch--the plastic flowers, the bronze-tinted mirrors, the piped-in Godfather theme. The walls bear snapshots of movie stars visiting the place, among them Johnny Depp (Donnie Brasco), Hugh Grant (Mickey Blue Eyes) and James Caan (The Godfather). At a round table sit five men--sturdy, with slick hair and crumpled suits--having a good rude time as two other men in velour sweatsuits, drivers or bodyguards probably, sit at a subsidiary table. They turn quiet and suspicious when a new couple, strangers, is seated across the room, then return to their powwow. On the ceiling above...
Despite playing in conditions that made the ball slick and footing treacherous, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team made sure that its lead was one thing that didn’t slip away on Saturday evening at Jordan Field...
Novelists right now are kind of like French painters in the 19th century. Back then you had your ultra-smooth academic perfectionists--your Ingres, your David--on one side, painting pictures so slick, they look as if they have been freshly buffed and polyurethaned. Then along came the Impressionists, with their rough-textured, gnarly, worked-looking canvases. Among contemporary fiction writers we have purveyors of lapidary, polished, M.F.A.-perfect prose--John Updike, Alice Munro--and on the other side, a grab bag of avant-gardists (like David Foster Wallace), witty pyrotechnicians (Jonathan Franzen) and operatic monologists (Toni Morrison) who fling...