Word: slick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the automated junk heap of tomorrow. As Helmholtz the music teacher says to Jim Donnini the delinquent, in an effort to explain how one might bring beauty into the world: "Love yourself and make your instrument sing about it." Though Vonnegut's performance is occasionally a little slick or a little sloppy, he does succeed in making his literary instrument sing...
...five man band at its best makes a tight inventive sound heavily steeped in today's slick-blues sound. Their influences are diverse: two members of the band swear by soul music, two others have strong feelings about the Doors--John Leone, the strapping singer detests them, while Bob Gass, a soaring organ player loves them. But all of them share a common commitment to being dedicated to their music and have been approached by Vanguard about a recording contract...
Poitier's idea was to present the first inside look at the life and love of a young Negro couple. Fine in theory, but why did he have to do it in a story that not even the most gullible honky would buy? Poitier cast himself as a slick hustler in a continental-cut tux who spouts fluent Japanese, keeps a pet piranha, sits in on bongos and serves as baby sitter for a brood of Negro children, while running a trucking concern by day and a casino-on-wheels by night. Abbey Lincoln as Ivy is a sweet...
...American movie-watcher is occasionally duped by hand-held camera into feeling that what he is watching is reality. But those who see a slick Hollywood color job directed and lead-roled by John Wayne know different. About every fifth person walking out of The Green Berets was giving a detailed description to his friends about how it was filmed in Georgia, how it cost $3,000,000, and how it would've cost lost more if the army hadn't lent them most of the stuff...
Heat makes you think of cool, of getting out of this place. You can go to Crane's Beach, which is good, or Revere Beach, which is bad because the water is slick with oil and is streaked with something that is reddish brown and looks very bad. You can go to Cape Cod, which is good if you know somebody. Or you can go to Maine, which is probably just as hot as it is here anyway...