Word: slipperiest
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...brace of embarrassing Richard Nixon film clips, put together by Emile de Antonio, the man who did Point of Order, the fine documentary film of the McCarthy hearings. Although the Nixon appearances are amusing and sometimes hilarious, de Antonio fails to find a toehold on the personality of this slipperiest of politicians. The film becomes nothing more than a disconnected sequence of Nixon statements, and some of Antonio's forays--like cutting from a determined Nixon campaign speech directly to Pat O'Brien's famous "win one for the Gipper" speech in the Notre Dame locker room, simply fall flat...
...brace of embarrassing Richard Nixon film clips, put together by Emile de Antonio, the man who did Point of Order, the fine documentary film of the McCarthy hearings. Although the Nixon appearances are amusing and sometimes hilarious, de Antonio fails to find a toehold on the personality of this slipperiest of politicians. The film becomes nothing more than a disconnected sequence of Nixon statements, and some of Antonio's forays--like cutting from a determined Nixon campaign speech directly to Pat O'Brien's famous "win one for the Gipper" speech in the Notre Dame locker room, simply fall flat...
...most sensational trial Switzerland had seen in years. But the prisoner's names -Donald Hume alias Donald Brown alias John Stephen Bird-were not on the tips of Swiss tongues alone. In Britain, Hume is Scotland Yard's most notorious enemy -and just about the slipperiest the Yard has ever...
Later the man who has been called the slipperiest eel in Germany was slipped out of the dying Reich. From Paris he was reportedly headed for internment...
...minor, you continue, (at least, I do) to be haunted by its deep-driven intensity and the sheer melodic beauty which contains it. Perhaps another way of looking at it would be to say that if the music is really beautiful (and here again we are dealing with the slipperiest terminology)--if, I say, there is real beauty in the notes, you may be sure they are the product of genuine emotion. If there is not, you may be equally sure of the emotional sterility behind them. (But if you are really interested in all this, you will forget...