Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London Madhouse Company of course has no such tear-jerking Horatio Alger story. It was marketed from the start by the slick professional Playbillpublicity machine, and it has in fact played with phenomenal success in several countries. Still as we watch the red-faced clownish musician attempting to play a dozen battered instruments taped around a bedframe, we can recapture some of the extemporaneous, frantically amateurish flavour of a uniquely American institution that traces its origins to the days of Mr. Bones and Mr. Tambo...
...said to be the individual talent interacting with the artistic tradition when he hacked out the bad imitations of Delacroix and Rembrandt. But because Lichtenstein glorifies and celebrates the succinct essence of hamburgers, comic strips and warehouses, because he reworks Monet's Haystacks and Picasso's Bull with the slick techniques of modern graphics, he is lowered to insultable altitudes--down from the ivory tower of unintelligibility which protects most artists, thanks to the vanity of a public that does not want to be thought of as ignorant...
Granted, they resemble slick magazine graphics or modern interior design. But is that necessarily a fault? It is not so much that Lichtenstein is so bad that he resembles commercial art, but that commercial art is good because it has learned the practical lessons of Mondrian, Picasso and modern art. Because of their plentifulness and familiarity we take for granted and deprecate the superb graphics of magazines like Playboy, Esquire, and National Lampoon. But how many boring dull articles have we been snared into by eye-catching graphics? And in a hundred years, how many architecture students will be studying...
...expect the typically slick rock production--where some big rock superstar lays down one track, then overlays a track so he can accompany himself on the kazoo, throws in a moog synthesizer because the moog is oh so hip--look elsewhere. The music here is all recorded on a home tape recorder with one to three mikes. Dylan dislikes recording any song more than a couple of times, which is why you can sometimes here him laugh in the middle of a take, or talk to a member of The Band. What is lost in neatness is more than made...
...Thinking about crime is a lot like going for a physical or buying life insurance," Harvard's new police chief, David L. Gorski says. Gorski says his primary concern is crime prevention, and under his leadership, the Harvard University Police Force has taken on a slick, sophisticated, and highly technical look. A proponent of "security consciousness" in the community as the best deterrent to crime, he has also encouraged the development of crime detection techniques...