Word: slickest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome Guido is the perpetrator of one of the slickest impersonations since the Prisoner of Zenda. His wacky tales of life in the Italian submarine service (he learned his English by sneaking up behind U.S. warships and watching the recreation movies), of golf games in Tanganyika (the course went up the side of Kilimanjaro; he shot a 77 and four Mau Mau), were not the product of an overheated Latin imagination. He has never been nearer to Italy than the pasticcerie of Manhattan's West Side, where he grew up. Guido Panzini's real name is Pat Harrington...
...Brigitte Bardot pictures-and probably the best. Topnotch Whodunit Writer Georges Simenon furnished the novel (En Cas de Malheur) on which the film is based. Jean Gabin was hired to top the title. Actress Bardot was signed to bring up the rear in the box-office battle. And the slickest of the big French directors, Claude Autant-Lara (Devil in the Flesh, Rouge et Noir), has contrived to combine all these expensive, volatile elements into a smutty story that is technically very well told...
This jabberwockian fantasy is not the handiwork of a beat generation poet, but the nightly stock in trade of the nation's slickest new vocal group-the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross trio. In Los Angeles' Crescendo Club last week, the three performers triple-tongued their way through these lines (to Everyday) and half a dozen other numbers. What they were up to was a startling vocal and verbal imitation of instrumental jazz, particularly the big-band style of the 1930s. The whisky drinkers, like the trio's record fans, dug the act with the fervor...
...stands bellowed with delight, and the pros nodded knowingly. Even with a broken hand, Pettit was still the slickest shotmaker in the business. Before he was through, Pettit had scored 28 points (an All-Star record) and taken 26 rebounds (another record), although his Western team lost to the East, 130-118. For such heroics Pettit was named the game's most valuable player...
Mikoyan, the Kremlin's agile Armenian, has made a career out of guessing right. Among the men who inherited Stalin's tyranny, his is the quickest and sharpest intelligence, and he is the slickest and shrewdest operator. He is the supreme Soviet trader, the one big Bolshevik to show both the talent and the will for business enterprise. As such, he not only organized a $120 billion-a-year retail trade (200 million customers) and a $6.2 billion-a-year overseas business, but in the process achieved an understanding of the wider world of trade and global politics...