Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Larceny (Universal-International) is as slick as the two con men (John Payne and Dan Duryea) who set out to fleece a pretty, not very bright war widow (Joan Caulfield). Their plot is to persuade the lady to finance a youth center as a war memorial to her hero-husband-or rather, as a paid-up charity benefit for themselves. Their dastardly scheme is clicking along like the southbound express when it develops a hotbox. Payne is far too successful as a lady-killer. He has a hard time convincing the widow that he is not part of the memorial...
With such slick tricks as its new records, S. & S. feels sure that it will weather the storm now buffeting bookmen. S. & S.'s two guiding heads, tall, affable Richard L. Simon, 49, and intense, hard-driving M. (for Max) Lincoln Schuster, 51, are a formidable team, bubbling with ideas. In the words of one associate: "Max gets an average of 80 ideas a day; at least one a month is superlative...
This was too much for British Writer Edward Crankshaw, who complained privately to Russia's slick Ilya Ehrenburg. Explained Ehrenburg: "That was Fadeev's job. He had to define the enemy. But don't worry. Tomorrow it will be my job to smooth the enemy's ruffled feathers...
...interesting to know, in a little more detail, just why these Southerners felt so contrary; what their neighbors thought of them (and vice versa); what their relations were with the Yankees ; and how they managed to survive as long as they did. However, all such questions are swamped in slick-fiction formula. A fiery redhead (Susan Hayward) gets crippled for no good reason and for no good reason gets fixed up again. Her fiance, the swine mentioned above, runs off with her sister (Julie London). An intrepid editor and duelist (Van Heflin) waits Redhead out and finally gets...
...Slicks. The best of them look as well on a library table as Town & Country. Except for its Chevrolet ads, General Motors' slick Friends (1,400,000 a month) could pass as a regular picture magazine. Restyled three years ago by the Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) as a luxury magazine, The Lamp, which goes to 255,000 readers, pays up to $2,500 for articles. Chrysler's Overseas Graphic is exported (in English and Spanish) to 20,500 foreigners...