Word: slick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place instead of the Mandrake? Or is she dressing funny to emulate the women she saw in Vander Elk's "Paris At Midnight" photography exhibit? It is hard to tell. Are those lacerated loafers, that patched jacket, and ragged shirt collar a disdainful protests against the brandnew clothes, the slick show of affluence by the ascendant vulgar, or just magnificently down-at-heel aristocracy? Perhaps the diagnosis of a sophomore trying to look like a pre-publication existentialist is all wrong. It is hard to tell...
...record of Cinderella -issued well in advance of the show-was selling this week at the clip of a Broadway-hit album. However reminiscent of other Rodgers' works, the score had warmth and plenty of whirl to propel dancers through Choreographer Jonathan Lucas' gay patterns in a slick production handsomely set and costumed by William and Jean Eckhart...
...from style-setting Paris designers. To clothe fashion's nakedness, she assembled New York society for America's first fashion show, using clothes by a handful of neglected American designers. The fashion show, which became a national institution after the war, and the slick pages of Vogue, showing only what Edna Chase deemed acceptable, remade the nation's clothing industry. American manufacturers suddenly discovered a healthy market for mass-produced versions of the best models. Said Publisher Nast: "Taste percolated downward...
...dozen of the pleasantest comedies and musical comedies (An American in Paris, Father of the Bride) made in Hollywood since the '30s. And in Designing Woman, restricted still further by a plot that should have gone down the drain with bathtub gin, Director Minnelli has produced an uncommonly slick, prosperity-padded sequel to the emancipated-woman comedies of Depression times...
...some reason it was assigned to one of the brightest boys in Hollywood-John Huston, director of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen and Beat the Demi. And Huston, as nobody will be surprised to hear, has developed his unsubtly sensational theme into a big, slick composition that might appropriately be described as a rhapsody expressly composed for a thousand cash registers...