Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France's slick Communists make few mistakes; last week they made a lallapalooza...
Last week in the newly opened American Library at Frankfurt, whose shelves are loaded with periodicals from the U.S., earnest young Germans were deep in the study of U.S. economics, politics, geography and literature. None was more rapt in concentration than a thin, hungry-looking youth bending over a slick, glossy magazine in the corner. "I came here," he explained, "looking for a geographical magazine, but I picked up this one. I couldn't resist the temptation...
Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Superman Enterprises and a dozen comic-book publishers had applied to cover the big show, and were turned down; representatives of Air Aces, a bi-monthly pulp comic, and Charm, a fashion slick, were accepted. No group was more peeved at being slighted than the British press, which was given a quota of three newsmen; Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia each had as many. Russia and nine other nations were allowed one each...
Besides the millions of women it is aimed at, this film may interest students of the fantasy-life of U.S. womanhood in its less attractive aspects. It is a tear-jerker that is consistently slick and at moments almost believable...
...looked back (not too searchingly) at the war, it found that nowhere was the war so dead as at the box office. When Broadway looked at the disturbing in U.S. life, it showed more social conscience than skill. But a social conscience was alive in the theater, and even slick comedy smashes like Born Yesterday and the Pulitzer-Prizewinning State of the Union took pot shots at political and social targets...