Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then too, the score for "Top hat" is way out of the league of the newer music. But the real difference between the two picture is that in "Top Hat" the slick sophistication of Astaire and Rogers dominate the show; in the "Barkleys" it hardly survives the smothering effects of a sentimental vulgarity almost implicit in the term musical, "extravaganza...
...basement of the U.S. Embassy in Prague last week, the first issue of a slick-paper, LIFEsize, Czech-language picture magazine lay stacked in neat piles. This month, when the U.S. State Department's Amerika hits newsstands and mailboxes in Communist-controlled Czechoslovakia, traditionally pro-American Czechs will get their first real glimpse of the U.S. since the Iron Curtain fell 15 months...
Right Role. In the genteel bedlam of Manhattan's Cafe Society (six nights a week, after the curtain rings down on South Pacific), she was making her own solo hit. Slick-haired, flat-faced Juanita just hauled off from the microphone, braced her 61 inches and 165 pounds, and let the customers have it in a full, strong voice that ranged easily from deep purple to high yellow. She moaned Am I Blue and her own Lament over Love, and usually she gave them Bali Ha'i and Happy Talk, her South Pacific hits. Offstage, she had nothing...
...couldn't have ended any other way and Georgette (Friday's Child) Heyer's fans wouldn't want it to. Her so-called Regency novels (1811-1820), of which Arabella is the latest, are as slick, as painless and as inconsequential as the most languid hammock reader could wish, and they have helped to make her one of the bestselling writers in Britain today. Author Heyer has soaked up the speech, the manners, the pretentions and the social ambitions of her Regency smart set. She has been compared, say her publishers, to Jane Austen, and that...
...Slick, who had already spent $3,000,000 on the airline (mostly from his and brother Tom's oil-inherited wealth), planned to get along at first with his present fleet of 21 Curtiss (C-46) Commandos, in spite of the fact that the schedule boosts his route from the twelve cities he now serves to 54. Slick's route begins in Los Angeles, runs through Texas to Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville and on to Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Said he: "We will expand as we find it necessary. We're not going...