Word: slickers
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...such an entertaining romantic tandem as to make the detective element peripheral. Maybe Chandler should take the credit--but, like Altman's "The Long Goodbye," this film manages to be technically flawed and almost incoherent in spots, and yet still infinitely more enchanting and memorable than many a slicker package...
...this story he simply does not realize. Even so, the film shows an honest impulse to open up new realms of experience to the viewer, and there is nothing patronizing, no sense of sociopsychological slumming about it. Blue Collar may linger in the mind when a lot of slicker, more easily assimilated movies have passed .beyond recall...
...country slicker tangles with a divided, defensive committee...
Even for a nation long saturated with theatrics in Washington, the spectacle was fascinating. Easy-going Bert Lance, the country slicker whose financial low jinks as a Georgia banker had deeply imperiled his survival as Jimmy Carter's most intimate and visible Cabinet official, had turned from an amiable Teddy-bear figure into a charging grizzly. Seizing his long-promised day in court, the man widely considered doomed tore into his tormentors, sent a senatorial committee into confusion in nationally televised hearings and gave himself, however temporarily, a fighting chance to remain in office in big, bad Washington...
...movies, sold millions of records. He played Vegas, got married, filled amphitheaters, got divorced, lived a gaudy life so high and wide that it seemed like a parody of an American success story. And he kept selling records, well over 500 million in all. The music got slicker and often sillier, turned from rock toward rhinestone country and spangled gospel. Only the pace remained the same. Elvis Aron Presley always lived fast, and last week, at the age of 42, that was the way he died...