Word: slick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meaning "varnishing" in French, recalling the times when artists coated their works with a slick finish before the public was admitted...
...Slick Chick...
Everywhere the Americans settle in provincial Thailand, a miniature boom inevitably ensues. Bars, nightclubs, tailor shops and bowling alleys sprout. Udorn boasts the slick new Udorn Hotel; across the street G.l.s munch cheese burgers and chicken-in-the-basket in the Silhouette Restaurant before pushing off for the Playboy and Mona Lisa bars. Korat offers pleasures ranging from a town square filled with fortunetellers to miniature golf...
With Harper Paul Newman makes it into the high echelons of professional slick. Ten, maybe twenty years hence he may have his own cult, assuming he gets enough good parts. And if he extends ten years of steady improvement, he may even deserve the cult he gets...
HARPER. A bleary private eye (Paul Newman) seems to view the world through the bottom of his drinking glass much as Bogart used to do, but Director Jack Smight revives a grand old tradition in slick '60s style. Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner and Lauren Bacall are among the beautiful-but-damned folk at hand...