Mr. Cuccioli, as Sky Masterson, the slickest gambler of them all, is too stiff for his smooth, dashing character, but he makes up for a lot of that with an energetic rendition of "Luck Be a Lady".
The streets felt muffled and close beneath the starless sky; the sidewalks were slick with snow.
Sky is supposed to be slick, but there is such a thing as too slick; it's impossible to imagine a scenario in which this Sky Masterson ever mingled with this Nathan Detroit, unless Nathan once picked up his dry-cleaning.
Amason's music – showcased on their debut album, Sky City – is functional, polished and slick, but with a wild edge: Bergman's measured and assured vocals have a witchy quality that gives the songs a windswept wantonness.
I hiked up the A5 from Bethesda in hard rain, then on into the bowl of Cwm Idwal to stand beneath the rhyolite cliffs and watch others climb the slick rocks, soaking up the scene and the sky.
Called "The Power of Toads," it concludes: And in the end we might be glad, Even if all we discovered for certain was the slick, sweet Promise of good love beneath dark skies inside warm rains.
It soon planed out and skimmed along on a surface so slick it was impossible to tell where water ended and sky began.
It seems that UK audiences have more of a penchant for swords, sandals and sorcery than slick Madison avenue suits, as the series two premiere of the Sky Atlantic import attracted 522,000 viewers on Monday 2 April.
In search of more honest sustenance, I walked out on the rain-gray, slick streets, the trees standing shivering and leafless against the November sky, and turned down the broad boulevard of the Rue de l'Opera.
This absolute freedom from reason is present in her monumental collages, which might find a Barbie in Hawaiian garb standing in a verdant jungle alongside a slick gentlemen from a 1950s magazine, while a chandelier suspends from empty sky.
