Word: slicks
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...Elaine's, and in the counterterrorism world. Since 1995, when he helped coordinate the arrest in Pakistan of Ramzi Yousef, the man responsible for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, O'Neill had been one of the FBI's leading figures in the fight against terrorism. Brash, slick and ambitious, he had spent the late 1990s working closely with Clarke and the handful of other top officials for whom bin Laden had become an obsession...
...Indiana Jones films, with their roguish heroes, cultured antagonists and mytho-archaeological quests. Still, at least Spielberg threw in the occasional Arabic subtitle, thereby adding a bit of real atmosphere?a quality The Touch sadly lacks despite its $20 million budget. Pau and Yeoh may have hoped for a slick internationalism with their English-only policy and generic plot. Instead, what they deliver is a picture postcard from nowhere: the deserts could be any desert, the mountains any mountain...
...East Coast, their affection for the U.S. having shifted to a belief that it's a country "hostile to Arabs, as a people, as a nation." This is what the CFR report terms "attitudinal resistance" to American policy, and its depth and intensity is unlikely to be reversed by slick re-packaging...
...Gesundheits!" Limning an energetic tryst with one Mrs. Janet Buxton, he apostrophizes: "Oh, what hath headboards and Hemingway wrought!" (I give up: what hath pine and Papa wrought?) And in a reverie on his double hernia, Meyer writes: "Cause: hunkeringly / horizontal / hyper-activity about / atop ?Castle on Mulholland's' slick-sick sheets (lacking tooth)." Translation into English - anyone? Anyone...
...there were more surprisingly just nominations than egregious snubs - though we might as well admit that "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (which is wittier than "The West Wing," more suspenseful than "Law & Order" and more inventive than the slick "CSI") could cure cancer and not get a thank-you from Emmy. (It got a few minor nods for music, makeup and hairstyling...