1.   Butler assaulted the airwaves with slick commercials and radio spots.

2.   He thrives on television, whether in speeches, on talk shows or in slick commercials.

3.   Head-to-head TV debates would be preferable to static speeches, but whatever the formats, candidates should be required to speak for themselves and not through slick commercials.

4.   That film, Welsh charged, was a slick commercial for clean living with a soundtrack that served as the hook for a lifestyle.

5.   Working from a corny, cliche-riddled script by producer Douglas Day Stewart, director George Miller has created a film that unreels like a slick TV commercial.