Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most politicians and campaign workers more is riding on the slew of spring primaries than the question of White House occupancy. State, county, and municipal campaigns across the country are gearing up with local pols pitting traditional seat-of-the-pants management and grass-roots arm-twisting against slick national media campaigns for voter attention...
...after the decision, the office walls of Penthouse magazine were covered with x-ed out galleys of hastily killed articles, including one that explored a then new frontier of slick-paper porn: how to make love to your dog. The rest of the spectator-sex industry pulled back too, fearing simultaneous prosecutions in hundreds of different localities with varying "community standards...
...Sicilian villagers instead of actors in La Terra Trema (1947), the drama of a poor fisherman's family. In Rocco and His Brothers (1960), he described the brutalizing of a farm family moving north to Milan. Visconti's later works tended toward operatic melodrama (The Damned) or slick, vacant, surface beauty (Death in Venice). Conversation Piece, badly received at the New York Film Festival last fall, told the seemingly autobiographical tale of an elderly man of taste and learning trying to embrace the wasted lives of the barbaric sybarites around...
...time, they are turning more heat on him. So along with all the love from his ardent supporters, there is a wave of hate from some of his opponents. An aide to Morris Udall vows never to support Carter; he would rather vote for Ford. "Carter's so damn slick," he says. "What monopoly does he have on goodness? To me, he's dangerous." Says Alan Baron, George McGovern's press secretary: "By saying that he would never tell a lie, Carter decided for himself that that's going to be his standard. Well, fine, let's hold...
...Tinseltown. One wonders about those in the Pudding. A homogenous mass composed of the adolescent suet of the land, the Pudding remains in its 1930's mold even today. In the oak-panelled room, the chic play pool under hanging metal-shaded bulbs. They dress in vests and slick their hair back, but these kids' costumes aren't just dress-up. Anyone passing at night on Holyoke St., looking in through the lighted arched windows, can see that they finger their cues smoothly. They know how to play this game...