Word: slicks
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...NASCAR?s slick, two-hour press conference provided a microsecond-by-microsecond dissection of the crash, but did little to quell persistent questions and criticism. The report failed, for example, to determine exactly why Earnhardt?s left lap belt "dumped," bunching in a twisted tension adjuster, causing it to rip like cheap T-shirt...
...what highly marketable skill are these Swiss youngsters acquiring? Computerized 3-D animation? Some slick new graphics software? Think again. Like generations before them in the high mountain valleys of the Swiss Jura, Sandra and Bastien are discovering the intricacies of mechanical watchmaking. "Forty years ago, people were learning exactly the same thing," says their teacher Yves Antoniotti. "Some of the technology has evolved, but the basic techniques remain unchanged." Techniques like hand-polishing screw-heads until they gleam like mirrors, or grinding axle-ends down to a 10th of a millimeter using miniature lathes. And the young apprentices...
...even when ranting, 'N Sync wields its pop hooks like weapons; they nail every chorus, emote feverishly on the ballads and hedge their bets on the whole pop thing by bouncing between techno, two-step, hip-hop and any other style Billboard might one day have a chart for. Slick and stupid? Sure. But it will make you dance. 'N Sync is probably all right with that...
...their image right among the youth." He has no white clients, nor, he says, do his friends in other professions. He is sitting in Connect Telecom, a busy mobile-phone store run by his sons, where some whites, but mostly a procession of young men of Pakistani descent with slick haircuts and fancy sports clothes, buy phone cards, ogle the newest models and shoot the breeze in broad Yorkshire accents. He accuses one of rioting; the youth politely demurs but quickly leaves. "We used to be beaten by gangs of whites and just took it," Hossain says. "These boys...
...worst part of that permanent Washington is mere slick K Street venality - unelected money catering a hog's buffet. The best of the tenured Washingtonians, represented by Kay Graham at the top of her game, joined good human instincts with intelligent principle, and a certain thoughtful unfoolability about people (Richard Nixon, for example...