Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Johnny Cash: Gone Girl (Columbia). Much the best Johnny Cash album in years, and a necessary reminder that country music doesn't have to be slick to get unsentimental, doesn't have to bluster to hang tough. An album full of sur prises: some topnotch Cash originals; a country cover of the Stones' No Expectations; a little lyrical autobiography; and a 3%-min. Bildungsroman called The Gambler, in which the worldly title character hands down a little useful guidance to the youthful narrator: "Every hand's a winner/ Just like every hand's a loser...
...parents split up (his father died alone in a Lynn hotel six years later, his mother lived until 1977), and he moved with his mother to Richmond, 16 miles away. The Richmond High School 1949 yearbook shows a handsome young man with slick black hair, staring ahead with a slight smile. That year, at 18, he married Marceline Baldwin, a nurse whom he had met at the hospital where they both worked...
...innocence of that time with an enjoyable, if sometimes unfocused, energy. Moving through the standard '60s-musical formula of boy-meets-girl, boy-and-girl-fall-in-love, boy-and-girl-fall-out-of-love, and boy-beats-world-and-marries-girl -- all to the accompaniment of Loesser's slick score -- the Kirkland House cast manages to create a fun evening in the face of some almost overwhelming obstacles...
Isabel's final true love is as flat a character as can be. He turns out to be precisely that "slick hustler" who explains her life to her and tries to lead her from extreme orgies of self-abnegation to the moderate pleasures of middle-class womanhood...
Another home-grown Los Angeles star, Lopes was perhaps closest to Gilliam of all the Dodgers. In Game 1, he played with a vengeance. For all the intricate meshing of team play in baseball -the lightning ballet of the double play, the slick-quick coordination of a relay from the outfield-the sport remains a game of individual skills. Lopes produced the first of a string of great individual performances in this 75th World Series. He crashed two home runs into the bleachers in left center, the last a screamer that was still on the rise when it rifled into...