Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final moments of Taxi Driver constitute one of those endings too good too spoil. Intellectually it's a trifle slick, a sort of cinematic illustration of the old Rolling Stones lyric about "just as every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints..." But if Scorsese teases us through the body of the movie with latent violence, he more than compensates for it in the final shootout--a rapid, graphic sequence of knives, bullets and blood, followed by a perversely loving, achingly detailed pan over the scene of the massacre. In this and in the epilogue, Scorsese achieves...
...Next Stop, Greenwich Village, Paul Mazursky offers yet another slick version of an autobiographical-fifties odyssey across the Brooklyn Bridge. At the age of 22, Larry Lapinsky leaves a mother who "invented the oedipal complex," and a father forever hidden behind the pages of The Daily News, to seek love, fame and fortune as an actor in the big city. What he finds are more old cliches: unfurnished pads and wild parties, abortions and carrot juice squeezers, coffeehouses, Freudian analysts and old young people, everywhere, waiting to be discovered. Mazursky's film is less the personal journey its title suggests...
...receive more than one day's attention. As a rule, detective work takes place after an arrest has been made, not before, and consists mostly of "receiving reports, documenting files, and attempt ing to locate and interview victims on cases solved." that Are experience detectives shows smart, will slick not and be sexy? Says Greenwood: "Most detectives are suburban commuters who do their the rest of eight-hour us." turn and go home just like
Heavy Borrowing. Felker, on the other hand, recently mailed 430,000 promotional pieces for his slick, full-color New York spin-off-partly through a sample cover celebrating "The California Woman"-and claims an impressive return of 30,000 or so charter subscribers. His 20-page New West test issue, which is trial-priced at both 500 and 750 (v. $1 for Kobrin's magazine), is sprightly, but heavy on pieces borrowed from New York. To launch New West, Felker plans to spend $2 million, and aims for initial circulation...
Charlie Finch felt "all the candidates were alike, all super-slick," until he heard Fred Harris speak last year. The 1973 Yale graduate was impressed enough to quit his job as an Atlanta disc jockey and become a campus organizer in Harris's presidential campaign...