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Word: slicking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style in "Changin of the Guard", but cannot quite pull it off. The ballad's lyrics, full of the never-quite-clear symbols Dylan has used with such relish over the past few years, just does not mesh with the music; the keyboard work is a little too slick, the background vocals...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: An "Entertainer"? | 7/21/1978 | See Source »

...really in the tradition because the tradition is the solo voice. Fusion never goes anywhere." West Coast Jazz Pianist Paul Potyen thinks that most fusion albums have lost the sense of jazz's uniquely personal sounds and interactions. "The 'in' cuts are really slick; they're turning out musical TV dinners," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Silver Newport | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...short, slick spy thriller had been written to order by Russia's famed detective novelist, Julian Semyonov-the Soviet Ian Fleming. Spread over five columns of Izvestiya last week, it had some of the suspense but none of the humor of a James Bond story. The tale began as Martha Peterson, 32, a tall, blonde vice consul in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, drove her car to a deserted street in the Soviet capital. Quickly changing from a white dress to a black outfit that would meld into the shadows, she boarded in rapid succession a bus, a streetcar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Episodes in a Looking-Glass War | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Lowe has contempt for most of rock's superacts, running from Elton John, Rod Stewart and Grace Slick of Jefferson Starship ("She's like somebody's mom who's had a few too many drinks at a cocktail party") to megagroups like Kansas, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Yes ("Impotent music. They've got about as much to do with rock 'n' roll as Walter Cronkite"). He is impatient with the power-pop designation. "They say I'm the whiz kid of the three-minute single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bringing Power to the People | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

There is no slick stuff about Seger, not on the records and not in concert. His brown hair flows over the collars of modified Elizabethan shirts, stage gear long out of favor. The music has no labyrinthine lyrics or arcane chord changes. Seger still opens his show with Tina Turner's good-humored, hard-rocker Nutbush City Limits, and the song sets the tone for what follows: plain good times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hang Left out of Nutbush: Hang Left out of Nutbush | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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