Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dells, smoothies from Philly, are at Paul's Mall this week. They're not going to make you jump up and down and scream, but they're very polished and fine to listen to. Good for a night of slick...
...PURELY technical level, Chabrol has achieved a near-perfect control over his medium. Frame by frame he has created a photographically beautiful movie. The beauty is not of the slick sort that many commercial directors so easily mass-produce nowadays, but instead it evolves from the way Chabrol's cameras treat the spatial relationships between persons and things. It's as if the director turned the literary search for the mot juste into cinemagraphic terms and then succeeded in his quest. The excellence of technique is hardly for its own sake; like the most mature directors Chabrol has subtly integrated...
Jerry Butler, the Iceman, is appearing over in Boston at Paul's Mall. Butler has produced some nice, smooth R&B singles, notably "Only the Strong Survive," but lately he has been veering dangerously in the direction of middleaged pop music as well. He'll probably stick with slick soul material at Paul's Mall, though. July 2 through...
...sounds like a land huckster's pitch for a vacation-home development-but the property touted happens to be Otis Air Force base, and the idyllic description occurs in a slick brochure mailed by the state of Massachusetts to 1,500 corporations round the world. The state has been driven to this bit of hard-sell real estate promotion by the necessity of cushioning the impact of a federal economy drive on its citizens...
...ever mixed with a San Francisco psychedelic-style concert crowd is likely to forget the experience. Going to see the Boz Scaggs, Grace Slick or Hot Tuna? Better take ear muffs and a flak jacket. Psychedelic rock crowds can be hostile collections of spacy Viet-vets still suffering from post-Viet Nam syndrome, pimply feminists in granny glasses and young high school dropouts. Bottles and firecrackers spin through the air. At a Grateful Dead concert, usually a four-or five-hour affair, the typical freak is a blend of drug hunger, male lonerism and musical knowledgeability. He will attend somnolently...