Word: slicked
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...your guard down--it could come any page now--a sudden reversal. The plot isn't supposed to be so straightforward. Surely one of the characters will go mad--this world is just too sane. When is the author going to show his face in a slick self-consciousness of narrative? Where is the burlesque? Be ready now. But when it's all over the realization comes slowly that the only trick played on the reader is the failure of all these expectations. For once Gardner is perfectly honest...
...Confession) written by Franco Solinas who scripted The Battle of Algiers. It was hailed as a masterpiece by one local Marxist critic, and as a radical hype by Pauline Kael. She liked the message of the movie which castigated American imperialism; what she disliked, and rightly, was he slick surface that injects the message into your veins without giving you the data needed to consider the issues raised. Yves Montand has the sort of impeccably cool father face perfect for the part he plays. His role is based recognizably on the life and death of assassinated AID official Dan Mitrione...
SHORTCOMINGS and potential in one slick package, Playgirl has made publishing history by selling over two million copies in only six months. Obviously there are a lot of women out there interested in the soft core sex Viva and Playgirl have to offer...
...Dyke, and Brooks went on to win academy awards for writing "The Critic" and "The Producers." Both, however, were plagued by constant appeals to revive their creation. Finally, they relented, and to celebrate, Warner Brothers bought the three old recordings from Capitol, and re-released them in a slick Christmas package, optimistically titled The In complete Works of Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks...
...Crouse's book is not a war story and not all his cameos show delirious journalists. The book is wry and anecdotal, and Crouse knows how to be arch. While his writing is slick, sophisticated, and catchy, he retains a gravity in due respect to the political importance of the press. Entertaining as the style is, however, he's presenting a serious critique. What emerges most strongly are the hazards of pack journalism. The reporters have achieved a peculiar fraternity of chummy fellow travellers who, at a moment's notice, will forsake each other for a scoop...