Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minnesota, which claimed the largest state-fair art show in the country, gave its first prize in oils to a poster-slick abstraction of a stage set that might have come out of a studio in midtown Manhattan. Iowa's prizewinner (in the '30s Grant Wood once won three firsts in a row) was a somber doorway that could have opened into a house on almost any Main Street in the land. California's winners, hung in a monster open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine...
...lead a double life to get her novel written. For two weeks at a time she would concentrate on her radio show and get far enough ahead so that she could put in one week's work on the book. As a result: "The novel's slick, too, in places. Whenever I got to a dramatic point I found myself letting go with everything I learned in soap opera...
...more typical of the 220 artists represented were two local landscapists whose work changes not a whit from year to year: Dean Fausett (TIME, Aug. 22) and Luigi Lucioni. Their crisp, slick pictures of red barns, cows, birches and green pastures were echoed with varying success from wall to wall, making an exhibition steeped in milk and spinach, the way the customers liked it. (The exhibiting artists sold $10,000 worth of pictures at last year's show, might do as well this time...
...successfully avoids the bearded cliches of most hillbilly fiction and sticks to a safe middle road between authenticated history and conservative Hollywood tradition. Highlight of the picture is Miss Evans, Sam Goldwyn's latest personal find, whose natural, unadorned charm gives an appealing homespun finish to the slick production. To back her up, Goldwyn also contributed the talents of some distinguished veterans, notably Raymond Massey and Aline MacMahon as the elder McCoys, and Charles Bickford and Hope Emerson as Anse and Levisa Hatfield. Their performances, together with that of Miss Evans, give the picture a sober solidity which...
...Presidential Candidate Wintergreen had once discovered, Love was sweeping the country. On newsstands all over the U.S. last week, new-style comic books with such come-on titles as Sweethearts, Romantic Secrets, Teen-Age Romances and Young Love were outselling all others, even the blood & thunder variety. The sexy, slick-covered romance-mongers -souped-up soap operas in new wrappers-were rolling off the presses as fast as publishers could think up new names...