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Word: slick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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PROMISES, PROMISES is a Neil Simon musical to remember other musicals by: it is slick, amiable and derivative. With a plot line borrowed from the Wilder-Diamond film The Apartment and a structure copied from How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, the show is not so much viewed as deja...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 27, 1968 | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

PROMISES, PROMISES is a Neil Simon musical to remember other musicals by: slick, amiable and derivative. With a plot line borrowed from the Wilder-Diamond film The Apartment and a structure copied from How to Succeed in Business With out Really Trying, the show is not so much viewed as deja vu'd. While Jerry Orbach will probably light up Broadway from this show onwards, his performance is not equal to his acting in Scuba Duba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 20, 1968 | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...people, whatever their misgivings, remain ready to assert themselves at every opportunity. On instructions from Parliament, the government officially protested to Moscow the distribution of the slick occupation daily Zpravy; copies have since become scarce, and the paper is expected to vanish altogether in a few weeks. One bearded, fatigue-jacketed student leader said that "action cells" have penetrated every university in the country, and that contact between students and workers is being maintained. At the Kavalier glassworks in Sazava, employees are defiantly going ahead with their scheme to establish a workers' council despite Russia's objections. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE GHOSTS | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...There's no future in it." I can see him now, stumbling down some New York sidewalk in a second-hand overcoat. Then one windy November day, he would have been corrupted by a tiny, lithping Lithuanian and become "Trout Fishing American." He would have become a slick, glossy Layman-Informer. It's not a pretty story...

Author: By Steven W. Stahler, | Title: An Attempt to Clarify What Exactly It Is That Richard Brautigan Says About Trout | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

Here is a musical to remember other musicals by. Promises, Promises is slick, amiable and derivative. No playgoer will feel gypped if he attends the show, nor will he miss a thing if he skips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Mediocrity into Success | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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