Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year from his illustrations and posters. His famed "I Want You" poster of Uncle Sam pointing a fiercely demanding finger took millions of civilian eyes in World War I. The sulky-looking, full-bosomed Ideal Woman that he created and developed was seen in all the slick magazines in the flat-chested twenties. Now 69, he is still painting pictures that get about-such as his archly compassionate conception of Rosalind Russell in RKO Radio's Sister Kenny...
...were not for its heartbreaking subject, Sister Kenny could be lauded as a slick, above-average screen biography. But the whole subject of polio, its cause and its treatment, is of deep concern to every parent in the world. Any distortion or any half-truth on the subject can be both cruel and dangerous. The film's most outstanding distortions, implied rather than explicitly stated...
...chief hope for development as a free nation rests on the "number and influence" of its "tough-minded idealists." Recalling the glib complacency of those who, a year ago, oblivious of "the ominous consequences of the technical transformation of the art of war," foresaw the fulfillment of all the slick magazine ads picturing the happy, unruffled post-war world, he asked, "Should we have really expected a totally different post-war era?" But for Mr. Conant, realization of the hard cold facts of the atomic age is only half the battle, for he believes that America cannot develop...
...born with revolt in her veins. Said she: "My mother, whose maiden name was Flynn, was an Irish nationalist. ... In my Sunday school . . . my sister Eileen and I were evicted for having pernicious views." Along the rocky road to fame, as the writer of a zany best-seller and slick Hollywood scenarios, Ruth McKenney paused to join the Communist Party. Her corpuscles promptly began to tingle again. A 1940 sample: "The Second Imperialist War ... is a fight among thieves, a bloody quarrel among the vultures...
Like many novels that aim at the nerve ends of a whole nation, The Dark Wood is undeniably sincere in intention, but in the telling is pat and unconvincing. Author Weston has strong and respectful feelings for the abandoned soldier and the miserable widow-but her slick answer to their despair is to have them meet accidentally and fall in love, because the lonely soldier reminds the lonely widow of her dead lusband. Though The Dark Wood has its cold-blooded villain and villainess, most of the characters are treated as normal, unheroic people of the 20th Century -with...