The room resembles a set from "2001: A Space Odyssey," but it really seems a pointlessly slick exercise in interior design.
"Glossy, well cast, and a consistent hoot until it becomes a serious drag, this neo-'9½ Weeks' is above all a slick exercise in carefully brand-managed titillation – edgier than most grown-up studio fare, but otherwise a fairly mild provocation in this porn-saturated day and age," wrote Chang.
The announcement was a typically slick PR exercise by Nasheed.
"And so today, I announce that the Maldives will become the first carbon-neutral country in the world". The announcement was a typically slick PR exercise by Nasheed.
It means another slick marketing exercise, complete with a winsome portrait of our heroine, a naff title, "Nigellissima" and a crafty surtitle, "Instant Italian Inspiration".
Although clearly officially sanctioned by the label's current owners (having been passed like a parcel among corporate overlords, Blue Note is now distributed by Decca) this doesn't feel like a slick, bland exercise in self-promotion.
But the King's lecture, delivered in his strip-club headquarters as exotic dancers audition in the background, sums up everything wrong with this slick, empty exercise in fast-talking tough-guy attitude.
For some, however, the last-minute U-turn, allowing the actor to attend in character as his latest alter ego has all the hallmarks of a slick marketing exercise.
When I say change, I'm not talking about some slick rebranding exercise: what I'm talking about is fundamental change, so that when we fight the next election, street by street, house by house, flat by flat, we have a message that is relevant to people's lives today, that shows we're comfortable with modern Britain and that we believe our best days lie ahead.
The Broadway version of "The Graduate" created buzz solely on the promise of seeing Kathleen Turner shed her clothes; and the Broadway version of "Hairspray" turned John Waters's messy Dadaist comedy into a slick, candy-colored exercise in feel-good nostalgia.
