Word: slicks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Indeed, in contrast with many media productions during that period—at first graced by the networks’ decision not to run ads, then vulgarized by their slick “Attack on America” graphics—DoubleTake was an ideal setting for personal accounts and photoessays that were, in Walker Percy’s terms, neither patronizing nor didactic...
...about fifty books I’d actually read voluntarily. “Reality,” of course, being the blatantly overpriced, overweight, overwhelming stacks of textbooks the Coop and the Science Center genially offer us every semester and which we tote home, gasping as we lug those slick white and red bags back to our rooms, where they will sit on our bookshelves—and, with luck, be read in the next few days before the midterms arrive...
...greens has become, as former Nissan design chief Jerry Hirshberg says with a sigh, "a religious war." On one side are devout environmentalists and icky Hollywood types, as well as reputable safety experts who say SUVs can be death machines. A lefty group called the Detroit Project has produced slick ads charging that because SUVs use so much gas, and because some of the crude oil for that gas comes from the Middle East, and because some oil-rich princes have funded Islamic extremists, SUV owners are supporting terrorists. (Got it?) Some of the anti-SUV people take their mischief...
...owners said in a 2002 R.L. Polk & Co. survey that they value their SUVs for driving in harsh weather. But while four-wheel drive can help you blast through snow even as light rear-wheel-drive cars spin out, it won't help you stop on slick roads. Says Joe Orlando, spokesman for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority: "People think that if they are in a four-wheel drive, they can go through anything." Orlando, who owns two SUVs, had to go on TV one recent snowy morning to ask SUV drivers to slow down. "We had a really high...
...them for novelties or for transport vehicles, garbage trucks, ice-cream vans." Another big manufacturer, Asian Quality Company, is exporting a VIP tuk tuk to Egypt and Europe, mainly for use at resorts. It costs $4,750, almost double the price of the basic model and boasts a slick, aerodynamic look, a cleaner-running four-stroke LPG-burning engine, and could almost pass for a minivan except that it has three wheels...