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...such an entertaining romantic tandem as to make the detective element perhipheral. 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...
...excuse to take a short (100-mile) drive, attended the Antiques Fair and Winedale Spring Festival. They hoped to fleece the local merchants out of old buckets, ice chests and garden tools. "Hey, you know where I can get a deal on a wash kettle?" one city slicker asked General Store Owner Odies Schatte. "You're not gonna find one," said Schatte. "People bought them all up, drilled holes in the bottom and turned them into planters. If you had one, you'd probably be able to get $150 for it." Which was precisely what the visitor...
Blazing Saddles. More from Mel. A slicker effort than The Producers, but no less insistent. Brooks plays on our prejudices, particularly about blacks and black sexual prowess. He revels in bawdiness of all varieties--no one else has been quite as successful in eliciting the comedy inherent in a fart--and in incongruities--outlaws slugging horses and old women, black cowboys with Gucci saddlebags...
...Northland's Greatest Attack (Cornell's Mike French, Eamon McEneaney and Jonathan Levine) is slicker than College Park's Burliest Midfielder (Maryland's Frank Urso...
With yesterday's 3-1 loss to a slick (now 13-3) Brandeis team on an even slicker Soldiers Field, the squad's record rests, not so comfortably, at 3-10 (14-12 total). Each game draws Harvard's overall mark a little closer to that elusive .500 mark, but unfortunately, it's being driven there from the wrong direction...