Word: slick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brooms, brushes and other oddments, poking fun at the high turnover in art vogues, or the foibles of collectors. Modern Sculpture With Weakness combines a log nearly chopped through, a plastic wheel with a slice removed and aluminum tubing tied with string. The whole kids Roy Lichtenstein's slick abstract "Modern Sculptures" and a high-flown review that attacked their "weakness...
Died. Jack Adams, 72, longtime ice-hockey great, both as a player and as a general manager; of a heart attack in Detroit. Rotund as a hand grenade and just as explosive, Adams earned his reputation as a slick-skating center for the Toronto Arenas (forerunners of the Maple Leafs); he demonstrated his managerial skills by collecting young talent for the Detroit Red Wings (he got Gordie Howe at 17) and leading his team to twelve N.H.L. titles (including a record seven in a row from 1949 to 1955) and seven Stanley Cup victories...
...subject in a firm social, cultural and artistic context. Schickel has high regard for the primitive, graphic quality of the early Mickey Mouse cartoons and for full-length, animated features such as Pinocchio, which, he thinks, is one of Disney's best-elaborate and smoothly executed without the slick, sugary glaze seen on many of the Disney animations of the late...
...family, Disney was a genius to be pampered; to his business associates, he was the boss to be yessed. His meticulously cultivated public image remains that of the sort of magician often hired to entertain at children's birthday parties-a milk-and-cookies Mandrake complete with slick hair and slim mustache...
Died. Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello, 75, Brazil's banty rooster of communications, whose interests were as lengthy as his name; of a heart attack; in Sao Paulo. Slick financing and a knack for marketing new ideas brought Chateaubriand an empire of newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations that at the time of his death included 89 companies; he helped bring Dictator Getulio Vargas to power in 1930, later helped pull him down. The fire diminished in 1960 after he suffered a cerebral thrombosis flared again in 1962 when he scuttled Janio Quadros' political comeback...