Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toned, spaciously planned pictures that were quickly acclaimed by Rio's intellectuals. Soon even Brazil's granfinos (upper crust), who disliked his serious works ("He paints big feet, he paints Negroes, he imitates Diego Rivera"), were commissioning him to paint their portraits, and Portinari obligingly turned out slick & sound conventional likenesses in the best School of Fine Arts manner. He made good money painting portraits of Helena Rubinstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein...
...this latest collection of magazine stories, Creatures of Circumstance, his yarns are as well made as ever, and as full of Maugham's slick brand of irony. Readers will find them useful on long train rides; it is possible to read them while thinking of something else and lose nothing of value in the process. Having nothing to write about, Maugham once wrote in answer to his critics, is "the most inconclusive reason for not writing that I've ever heard...
There was risk in the strategy. There was risk in coming out into the open from the safety of Albany. But Dewey was well aware of the old suspicion in the West that Tom Dewey was just a little too fluent, a little too much the slick Easterner, that actually he was as ardent an advocate of Big Government as any New Dealer. He had to wipe out those suspicions...
...Rome there were also unpolitical G.I.s on hand to meet Eva at the airport and give a low wolf-whistle as she emerged from her private plane in slick, flower-printed silk pulled skin-tight over her hips and bosom. There was an audience with the Pope, luncheon with the Foreign Minister, a Grand Hotel reception glittering with papal titles, and a dazzling performance of A'ïda under the stars in the ancient Baths of Caracalla. Eva, in black flowered silk with a white fox cape, her hair, ear lobes and shapely neck glittering with diamonds, arrived...
...Slick-Paper Religion. As pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Reformed Church (1923-30) and Philadelphia's Baptist Temple (since 1936), Dr. Poling has managed to be at home often enough to keep his congregations happy. (He thinks he is the only living member of both the Dutch Reformed and Baptist Churches.) In 1927 he became editor of the Christian Herald, a slick-paper religious magazine which gives deep theological issues short shrift, keeps its religion simple and down to earth...