Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July 1972, a camp sergeant in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman ordered Inmate William Hardin Bogard to take a sewing machine away from James B. ("Slick") Davis, a fellow inmate. Davis, who was allowed to work in the prison slaughterhouse even though he had been diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic, jammed a butcher knife into Bogard's spinal cord. The incident was Bogard's second bloody encounter with the malign brutality that has established Parchman as one of the most dangerous prisons in the U.S. Less than a year before, he was shot in the foot by another...
...Phil Spector, multifaceted rock tycoon, wrote the lyrics, produced the records and pocketed most of the profits. In the '60s the men who sold pop music saw women as petulant screamers (Lesley Gore) or filigreed folkies (Judy Collins). Occasionally, women defied the image makers. Janis Joplin and Grace Slick escaped briefly from San Francisco psychedelia. But separated from their back-up bands, neither prospered for very long. Joplin turned to drugs, and Slick lost her creative flair...
...secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters' farmworkers' union Local 1973 in Salinas, California, and according to George Baker's article, "The Teamster Raid: Stalled in the Vineyards," he is the symbol of the real struggle between the UFW and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Castro is portrayed as a slick image-conscious operator who feels that if his underlings can't "sell me, I'll lose the [possible union] election." Baker avoids the simplistic statistical approach, the numbers game of wages and benefits in terms of hard cash. Instead, he treats the more complicated issues: union enforcenent of contracts, administration problems...
...success of the show lies mainly in the casting, which resulted in many first-rate individual performances. In particular, David Cohen as the long-suffering Morris, LaGuardia's right hand man, and Paul Hewitt as Ben, the slick local party leader, rate gold stars for both their singing and acting performances. Steffi Sackman is a pert and lovable Dora, and Greg Minahan is properly earnest as Neil, the young law clerk. There is not a single really bad performance, and where the acting is weak, the problem is usually the book as much as it is the actor...
Scott's stories in Bits of Paradise give the impression that he wrote them quickly and without much attention, as if the bill collector were beating at the door. The stories are not hack jobs, but they are a bit slick and simplistic, making Fitzgerald's unmistakable heroes and heroines mighty unbelievable. Not surprisingly, eight of the eleven stories in this collection first appeared in the Post...