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Best Friends. It was on the streets of Potrero Hill, the ghetto where O.J. grew up, that he was slickest. As chief of a street gang called the Superiors, he was constantly juking himself and his followers out of trouble. "There were guys who could have taken O.J. in a fight," recalls Joe Bell, a friend from high school days. "But he had a way of manipulating people, of making them like...
...assorted characters in the sordid Watergate cast, Charles Colson was widely viewed in Washington as the wiliest, the slickest operator and thus the least likely to be charged with a crime. So quick to deny any personal wrongdoing, so voluble in defending the innocence of the President, Colson often seemed to be protesting too much. Federal prosecutors apparently thought so too. TIME has learned that the former White House special counsel not only may be among the first former officials to be indicted by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox's grand jury but that he is under investigation...
Unfortunately, despite the claims of that New York Times interviewer blazoned over the ads, the film is as Establishment a piece of goods as any. It is photographed by Haskell Wexler in his slickest if-we-have-a-tiny-set-I'm-gonna-move-my-camera-anyway style (which produced the most glaring defects in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf). It is staged as a conscious theater piece, with actors orating to the audience--failing to produce what I suppose was intended as Brechtian effect, but making the whole affair come off like a video-taped TV show...
...went into its second incredible week, antiwar partisans seemed to be manipulating basic U.S. institutions?the press, Government, and even, in a sense, the courts?to stage-manage a dramatic presentation of their views far beyond the wildest dreams of the most zealous campus radicals. It was surely the slickest counter-Establishment insurgency of recent times. The climax was the sudden appearance on national television of the man who started it all. There was Daniel Ellsberg, once the gifted and aggressive war planner, speaking softly but leveling the harsh charge that Americans bear the major responsibility for as many...
Weltner blames his defeat in 1968 on an inability to appeal to this frustration, and compares his campaign to the one for governor run last year by millionaire Carl Sanders, who had the slickest, most professional campaign ever run in Georgia. "I ran exactly that type of campaign," Weltner said. That old JFK rhetoric, still. It didn't sell and it shouldn...