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He had a cigar and a slick car magazine in his hand -- he owns a Porsche, friends say, and likes to tinker with it -- as well as a telephone message from Bob Dole, the former Senate majority leader.
In their odd-couple odyssey -- slick car salesman and the institutionalized brother he kidnaps, hoping to wrest his inheritance from him -- it is Mr. Cruise's Charlie Babbitt who seems more likely to go over the edge.
The director Jaume Collet-Serra ("Orphan," a hoot of a horror flick) knows his way around multilane roadways, and he and his stunt team squeeze in a few slick car chases, including a well-choreographed showdown between a cab and an S.U.V. during which the two vehicles turn in perfectly synched formation, arcing across the asphalt like skaters dancing on ice.
Last Sunday's episode about a family camping trip started off promisingly as a slick car dealer spotted the rubelike Simpsons approaching his camper display and murmured in fervent gratitude, "Thank you, God". But the trip itself soon became merely outlandish, with Homer covered in pond slime and being mistaken for Big Foot.
But being able to host underage parties at fancy homes or swerve onto campus in a slick car didn't help much: Household wealth played "only a minor role" in popularity.
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To mock ISIS in a way that diminishes its appeal would require mocking not the group itself, but the delusion that joining it will actually lead to living in those shiny buildings and driving those slick cars.
George McGovern, echoing the arguments of J. K. Galbraith, said that advertising can "brainwash the consumer" because "no one was ever born with the taste for huge automobiles". Companies were stuck on producing slick fancy cars, not safe cars.
Small rear doors and a usable back seat make this a slick sports car for the entire family.
It's a more jovial and interactive social experience than simply getting into the back of a slick black car.
Levin linked to a site that referred to Rubio as a "slick used car salesman".
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