Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience ("These are the people who elect the President," a political advance man comments early in the film, with just a trace of disdain) and its tradition. Country-and-western basically dresses up folk music in rhinestones and spangles, making hay out of Americana. A lot of it is slick and sweet, and its sanctimony can curdle the blood. Altman used the music like a continuing, slap-happy dirge...
...book is as full of holes as some of the bullet-sieved characters. Roxie Hart (Gwen Verdon), a honky-tonk '20s entertainer, murders her lover and beats the rap, thanks to a slick mouthpiece, Billy Flynn (Jerry Orbach). This scarcely matters. What matters is the erotic poetry in motion that uncoils whenever Verdon and her sister in crime Velma Kelly (Chita Rivera) do their solos and duets. They pace the show with spunk incarnate. The chorus is jazzily bacchanalian, and Patricia Zipprodt's eye-riveting costumes swirl right out of a decadent Brechtian Berlin. Chicago is a cinch...
Power hitter sophomore Tom Joyce and slick fielding juniors Barry and Fran Cronin (no relation) added depth to the team...
...under the big sky as a cowboy works them over with a weirdly out-of-place vacuum cleaner; a brand-new Lincoln auto is pumped full of slugs from an ancient buffalo rifle. But Perry appears to distrust his taste for surrealism and settles too often for the merely slick. Similarly, McGuane, a highly regarded young novelist, tells us too little about the characters in this original screenplay. Rancho Deluxe might have been a film of considerable originality, something on the order of last year's under rated Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (which also starred Bridges). Instead, all it offers...
...smoking jacket, and plastered it all over the newsstands and his DC-9, the rabbit's reputation rested mainly on a swift (wham, bam, thank-you ma'am), productive (litters the year round) procreation. Then Hefner air-brushed its aura and made the rabbit the symbol of his whole slick fantasy world. But when you're inventing fantasy to entertain your children during a long, boring car trip you leave out the details that enrapture the slavering American male. You retrograde modern romance, back to Northrop Frye's original "love and adventure" formula, away from modern "lust and bloodlust...