Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adapted from Robert Nathan's 1928 novel, The Bishop's Wife is Sam Goldwyn's and RKO's special Christmas cookie. It is a big, slick production. The only thing it lacks is taste. Some moviegoers may also be distressed by the lack of Christmas spirit in what is apparently the moral of the picture: you can't trust a soul with your wife...
Scoring early and often, the clearly superior CRIMSON worked from an unbalanced split I formation, sparked by the slick field generalship of-Carodny. The pawky blue were hampered chiefly by slow reflexes, permitting the fleet-fingered Red to execute its plays and submit telegraphic brochures before the defense had time to organize a lead...
...accused U.A.W. left-wingers, led by slick Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes, of following the Communist line, of trying to railroad the Red-tinged farm equipment workers into the U.A.W., of making big loans out of the U.A.W. treasury to win support from wavering left-wing locals...
...opening play--'Ways and Means"--is typical Coward, taking place in a luxurious bedroom on Cote D'Azur. It is slick, refined, and witty--at times too much so. The famed Coward vencer tends to get so shiny that no other values can be seen through the glitter...
...substitution rule rest in the rulebooks, for his first-stringers were, and still are, uninjured. With the guards and tackles playing an average of 58 minutes apiece, Hal Kopp's forward wall showed it "was fundamentally sound" as Harlow put it after the contest. Ed Finn, Brown's slick quarterback was more explicit on the subject asserting that he'd "never been hit so hard, especially by that guard Drvaric...