Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshmen's weaving rushes, slick cross-ice passing, and stiff poke checking straitjacketed the Warriors' forays through most of the seesawing contest before the tables turned in the waning minutes. "Everyone was moving," said Coach Tim Taylor...
...Deer Island, like Fenway Park, creates special problems, giving a slight advantage to the home team. It is only a foot wider on each side than the width of the basketball court itself, and the floor is of slick concrete. During the game players frequently smacked into the wall or bruised their knuckles trying to save the ball from going out of bounds...
Between Time and Timbuktu, at Off The Wall, should attract Kurt Vonnegut fans. The film was written by Vonnegut, incorporating much of his fiction, and made by WBGH. It features Bob and Ray, Bill Hickey and Kevin McCarthy. Vonnegut is slick, commercial and unfunny but there's no accounting for taste. Off The Wall is at 861 Main Street in Cambridge...
Whatever the case, precious few really good novels are written and the reason might well be a forgetfulness on the novelist's part. Too many modern novelists are too concerned with sophisticated characters and slick with. But modern society's search for basics leads directly to Larry Woiwode's Beyond the Bedroom Wall and his truly commonplace characters and settings. Few things are more ordinary than North Dakota and Illinois, farmers, plumbers and schoolteachers, solid parents and curious children. Yet Woiwode has taken the universal elements in these common people, places and things and made them into strong, well-defined...
...here is in how Shaffer has constructed this sometimes--too-slick play to heighten suspense and to raise some interesting questions on the side. Equus brings to life a mythical resonance and intellectual concerns that aren't too prevalent in contemporary drama--and this, I think is why it has been acclaimed "brilliant" time and again by critics--but these concerns are cheapened...