Word: slick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jefferson is the name of a musical airplane from San Francisco. Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Paul Kather, Jack Cassady, and Jorma Ludwing Kaukonen. Once they played for nothing in the pure air of Haight-Ashbury, a hilly San Francisco neighborhood. Lately they have straightened up a bit, just enough to become the first super-star hippy musicians in America's history. Their rock is harder than the Lovin Spoonful's, their lyrics are heavier than the Rolling Stones', their message is sweeter than the Beatles'--the Jefferson Airplane is closer to where it's at than anyone else...
...could indeed-if not exactly in the way that the ex-boxer from Barbour County anticipates. As a self-declared Populist, Wallace has a slick, simplistic charisma. He appeals to Southerners-and some Northerners as well-who are anti-L.B.J., anti-Big Government, anti-high taxes, anti-intellectual and anti-civil rights. Yet, for all his hopes of hurting the incumbent Democratic Administration, Wallace's campaign next year will in all probability boost Lyndon Johnson's prospects of reelection...
Garbage Somewhere. It does not seem to matter that Nancy can just barely carry a tune. The slick arrangements, the electronic doctoring and the charisma of the Sinatra name carry her along very well, just as they do her singer brother, Frank Jr., 23. Junior, however, does not have Sis's smoky sex appeal. With her lemur eyes, her pouty lips and luxuriant swirls of streaked blonde hair, she comes on like Mata Hari in a miniskirt...
...Gentle People, a paean to a love that might have been, and Mortmain, a chronicle of a mistress's revenge for a love that was, are too slick, but, on the whole, so well told that one scarcely minds. It is in Cheap in August that Greene delivers the full measure of his talents...
National preferences and practices in birth control vary astonishingly, without regard to education or socioeconomic levels. The highly sophisticated Swedes are educated in contraception early, and get frequent reminders in slick magazine ads. In affluent, literate West Germany, the pills and lUDs are little used; abortions equal live births-every year, 1,000,000 of each. France forbids the importation of birth-control materials; only a few women in elite private clubs pour le planning familial enjoy their benefits; again, abortion is rampant, as it is in Italy and an endless list of other, supposedly civilized nations. In most Iron...