Word: slicks
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...Gene By Gene” and the bass-driven “Moroccan People’s Revolutionary Bowls Club” are jarringly new. On those tracks, Albarn’s usual penchant for clever lyrics and tight pop structures are sacrificed for sing-along and slick production...
...other officials who are responsible for protecting the public in the case of a terrorist attack—and an additional $3.5 billion in 2004. Instead, Bush transferred $1.2 billion in federal funds already earmarked for local law enforcement to a similar program with a different name. Through some slick accounting and fuzzy math, Bush made it seem like this $1.2 billion transfer was a $1.2 billion increase in funding for homeland security. After this fiscal sleight of hand, the President provided only 71 percent of the funding increase he had promised. The Administration’s failure to provide...
...things may be picking up in PDA land. The latest models have new personality and a lot more pizazz, thanks to smarter designs and slick add-ons like phones and cameras. The new features should help drive sales up 18% annually during the next five years, according to estimates by the research firm In-Stat/MDR. Prices are still steep, and getting these babies to work as advertised can be a struggle, but some of the new PDAs are definitely worth looking...
...McCartney tried the same idea at her Paris show, but with all of the sugar and none of the spice. Futurism At Lagerfeld's Fendi show in Milan, he offered a futuristic look that might have been too much for Barbarella herself. Thigh-high boots and hot pants in slick, shiny fabrics were good for a giggle, but nothing a grown woman would actually wear. But in Paris, the touches of futurism in his collection for Chanel were more subtle. Tweed jackets came with geometric beading; black leather leggings gave a thigh-high boot effect without the boot. With...
Most Latin American film-makers can't stand slick Hollywood formulas. But two of the best Latin movies now playing in the U.S. and Europe benefit from at least one Tinseltown trick: good timing. Brazilian co-directors Fernando Meirelles and K?tia Lund's City of God, the brutally realistic saga of a Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, got a big publicity boost after it opened last summer, when real drug gangs swept out of Rio's favelas and briefly shut down posh neighborhoods like Copacabana. And Mexican director Carlos Carrera's The Crime of Father Amaro, the taboo-busting...