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Word: slick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bystander is a slick novel, but its precision can't quite make up for the fact that a few things in this world do transpire outside the double-bed. The most effective scene is Anthony's gambling; the least effective are Anthony's introspective monologues. Some of the descriptive passages are pat and common coin from the American Weekly and the Advocate. The pages are littered with italicized French terms. Perhaps because the style is adopted, it is self-conscious. Guerard has the disturbing habit of affirming himself in the middle of a sentence with a superflous...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Guerard's 'Bystander' An Omelette Of Modern French Ironic Writers | 8/7/1958 | See Source »

...Invade neighboring Tennessee by sending a state photographer into the Highlander Folk School at Monteagle, use the pictures of its integrated sessions for a slick-paper charge (200,000 copies) that it is a "Communist training center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Wrong Target | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...victims of one of the niftiest and most labyrinthine swindles since Boston's dapper Charles Ponzi was in his prime. The man credited with the feats of financial erring do was Earl Belle, 26, a baby-faced Pittsburgh sharpie currently residing scot-free in Rio de Janeiro. So slick was his pitch that only this spring he was interviewed by Mike Wallace as a wonder boy of finance, the proprietor of a budding empire worth, he claimed, something like $10 million. To Tough-Guy Wallace, Belle explained: "If you claw your way up" to success, you never have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: The Boy Wonder | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...advertising, has spent only $350 on outright promotion. In fact, the essence of Mad's success is its nimble spoofing of promotions of all kinds. In its parodies of advertisements and travel stickers, vending machines and lovelorn columnists, Mad is a refreshingly impudent reaction against all the slick stock in trade of 20th century hucksterism, its hopped-up sensationalism, its visible and hidden persuaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Maddiction | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...early 30s when he hit on the idea of selling reprinted newspaper comic sections for a dime. Using the standard comic formula-32 pages, newsprint, four colors, a 10? price tag-Mad was just holding its own when Gaines played a hunch in 1955, switched to semi-slick paper and higher quality black-and-white drawings, upped the price to 25? and promptly had a boffo success. The magazine now clears $43,000 an issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Maddiction | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

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