Word: sleekness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...that is a rather curious perspective: Flood sees lots of napalm-he even flies on the fighter planes that drop it-but there is not one word about the burning flesh, the terror, and the grotesque horror of a napalm explosion. Oh no, Flood instead rhapsodizes about the sleek shiny pointed bomb casing the napalm is dropped in. A book about the Vietnam war might be expected to include a little discussion of the National Liberation Front, or something about Vietnamese history, or maybe a sketch of hamlet life. No again-Flood prefers to discuss army routine, women, and particularly...
...charm. A street confrontation is never personal; it is always, in Buber's terms, an I-It relationship, never I-Thou. The woman must always be made to feel like an object under appraisal. Slim and rich, like a good cigarette. Soft, like a pair of slippers. Sleek...
...sleek, bullet-nosed vehicle looks like something off a rocket designer's drawing board. But the shape of the futuristic train is highly functional. As it quickly and quietly gathers speed, it will actually begin to "fly." The streamlined cars will hurtle forward just above the ground at speeds of 300 m.p.h. or more. For the 1,000 passengers on board, the trip will be strikingly smooth and vibrationless...
Amateur Mayfair psychiatrists delight in speculating about the personality of the working-class boy who turned himself into the archetype of the perfect Tory gentleman: sleek, immaculately tailored, slightly haughty and terribly self-contained. He is, some Tories claim, simply too good to be true. One acquaintance traces Heath's transformation back to Balliol: "When Ted went to Oxford, it was during the terribly class-conscious Britain of the '30s. He knew at Oxford that if he wanted to get ahead, he'd have to adjust. Ted shucked his working-class accent, clothes and whole life style for that...
Krackerjack's is every bad thing about youth culture and hip capitalism that you could imagine. DJs from WCBN (the local hip-rock station) slither in and out like sleek lizards, nattily attired in the latest $100 mod outfits. Everything in Krackerjack's is very expensive, and the store unconsciously parodies and shamelessly exploits every good thing the movement does...