Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophisticated campaigning seems to be futile in a community that selects its councillors almost accidentally. The most effective approach is "street campaigning." where the candidate talks to the slice-of-life people at the subways and on the corners. Also valuable is word-of-mouth, or newspaper publicity, usually procured through the revelation of scandal...
...rally either the Democrats or the independents. The most conservative of five primary candidates, he won the Democratic nomination with only a third of the vote, and has had difficulty expanding that base. Many prominent Democrats are actively supporting Lindsay. In the News poll, Lindsay captured a bigger slice of the Democrats, 44%, than Procaccino, who got 37%. Procaccino's personality also worked against him. The contrast between Lindsay's Ivy League polish and Procaccino's almost deliberate coarseness began to chafe in a city that has a certain affection for sophistication. One joke making the rounds...
...Cornell boys were there, and they clearly had no intention of leaving until they finished their goddamn brew, ferissake. So I felt that if I hung around for twenty minutes or so I'd get a good look at some of the slice-of-life people, that went to the agricultural school, in action. Getting involved rapidly in the atmosphere of the joint. I ripped off my tie, flipped a quarter in the juke box, and roared for a beer and something...
...just right for a variety-hour headlmer. She sang Those Were the Days with a panache that made the Mary Hopkin original seem lifeless. She played willing straight girl to Impressionist David Frye's show-stealing rendition of William F. Buckley Jr. She starred in "Sugar Hill," a slice-of-life sketch that will be a feature of the series; the opener was more pungent than The Goldbergs, if not in a class with The Honeymooners...
...great with Dwyer's child. All of this is supposed to be comic, but it comes out grubby melodrama. There is, as partial compensation, some excellent location photography of suburban London by Cameraman Larry Pizer, but that's just so much frosting on a half-baked slice of lowlife...