Word: slick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result is the "Motown sound" -basically the Negro rhythm-and-blues style that has captured a vast white audience in recent years, but now stamped into slick model lines and given the hard chrome gloss that Gordy used to fit into autos. "This is just something we feel and therefore produce," says Gordy. "We've never stopped to think about...
...tool for riot control may be "instant banana peel," a powdery chemical introduced last week by Fort Worth's Western Co. of North America. Sprayed on the street and hosed with water, the chemical, which goes under the trade name "Rio-Trol," produces a surface ten times as slick as ice-and ten times as hard for rioters to walk on. Still in the early stage of experimentation by at least one company is a tranquilizer dart-a kind of instant Miltown-that could be fired from a distance, yet reduce any suspect to euphoric nonviolence...
DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. A slick, cynical film that nevertheless has the courage to show Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds as less than sympathetic...
DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds are brave enough to appear unattractive and unsympathetic as well as funny in this slick, cynical film about a marital split...
...That," says Republican State Executive Secretary Truman Altenbaumer, "is what I call a real slick trick." The Republicans claim that the house cost at least $250,000, plus $60,000 to furnish, keep wondering aloud where the money came from. "Let 'em wonder," says Faubus, who insists that it cost only $100,000 and carries a $75,000 mortgage. "When the time is ripe, I'll explode all their myths...