Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kael knows how dangerous movies are. How a slick upbeat surface can bowl over and infatuate your senses, how a movie's immediacy can hit you with its message without giving you the data needed to consider the issues it raises; how flashy technology can play upon your emotional vulnerability and creep into your bloodstream. A commercially calculated cynicism can warp, even wreck your beliefs...
...white silk shirt and white flannels presents a very rich, dreamlike atmosphere," says New York Designer Ralph Lauren, whose Polo label has looked longingly back at the '20s for some time. There are dissenters inevitably. Designers Galanos and Halston view Gatsby by any name as a banana-oil slick. It is "not an influence on truly fashionable people," says Halston, whose clients include Jackie Onassis and Mrs. William Paley. "Women have finally settled down to pants, and that's the way it will be for a long time. Do you expect a woman today to go back...
Walton combined his average of 20 points and 17 rebounds a game with his intimidating shot-blocking to lead UCLA's slick and polished fast break. The 6-foot-11 "Big Red Machine" from the top-ranked and undefeated UCLA Bruins, was a runaway choice for All-American...
...ramshackle stage is enough to erase any slick overtones from the beginning, and here it is used to the best advantage by Dave Fuller's manic sets. Murray's apartment has the disarray of a closet overflowing with athletic equipment. The occupant of this holocaust is played by Bill Schley, who coaxed his Murray from a slow start into a performance of unassuming ease: this is fitting in a character that can tend to brash self-righteousness. Walter Murphy, a fifteen-year-old from an acting program at Phillips Brooks House, plays Nick (who, at Murray's urging, calls himself...
...Benny Goodmanesque Derivations for Clarinet and Band and set out to pay tribute to the jazz dances of the 1930s and 1940s. What it actually accomplished was to certify all over again that nobody, including Feld, can match Jerome Robbins (Interplay) at the art of choreographing to slick jazz...