Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primary night headquarters outside Anthony's Pier Four. Not that there wasn't a goodly share of staggering bodies--between the bar and the sheer crush of it all--but something was definitely missing. The faithful had pitched camp, sweating in their polyester skins and listening to the too-slick band that played "Mack the Knife" too slow and then sprinted through "Stardust". But the scavengers--curious little fish that nose around a campaign for a few months and then, once the blood is spilled, turn around and feed off the winner, tearing off little scraps like state jobs...
...office in Sequoyah County, Okla., sniffed out the marijuana cache kept in plastic evidence bags, and made off with some of the weed. The intruder has never been seen, but police think they have a pretty accurate description: stands 3 in. tall, weighs about an ounce, has slick brown hair, beady little eyes and a long tail, is prone to staggering, even on four feet...
...soldiers are mostly awkward and extraneous. There is one nice a capella number for the soldier boys, and an almost-touching dream sequence in which a temporary truce allows the opposite sides to get to know each other. All in all, King of Hearts comes off as an extremely slick production, calculatingly geared for success...
...Time Slips Away as recorded by Jimmy Elledge, Hello Walls by Faron Young, and dozens of others. It seemed Willie could write a hit for anybody but himself. His own recordings went nowhere, perhaps because they were not truly his own. Producers decreed that he should be backed by slick studio musicians and often swathed in saccharine strings. What came out was the Nashville sound, not the Willie Nelson sound. "I was trying to sell a new style of singer," Willie recalls. "They didn't have a category...
...mother bought him a tape recorder when George was in the eighth grade and he started recording short comical skits--"news, sports, all the stuff that established my comedy"--and visions of radio and music and disc-jockey slick distracted Carlin from his studies. He eventually quit school...