Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stroke; on St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner's tastes run to fried chicken, cool jazz and Los Angeles weekends; Auguste Comte Spectorsky preferred Continental cuisine, Mozart and Caribbean sailing. When "Spec" joined "Hef's" three-year-old enterprise in 1956, it was a slick girlie magazine in search of some intellectual balance for the bare flesh. Spectorsky provided it by attracting contributions from top fiction writers and journalists. In the process he helped drive the magazine's monthly circulation from nearly 800,000 to 6,500,000. Among his own books were The Book...
...many people 1971 was a year of decline. The Band continued to slide downhill with the release of Cahoots. Jethro Tull became self-indulgent with Aqualung. If anyone had ever questioned the death of the San Francisco sound, Grace Slick et-al. confirmed their suspicions with Bark, and a spate of pseudo-solo albums. With the release of Future Games, Fleetwood Mac proved conclusively that it will never make it without Peter Green. And Peter Green with the release of his solo album proved conclusively that he'll never make it without Fleetwood Mac. Ram and Wings helped Paul McCartney...
...occasion is the world premier of Dealing, a movie based on a book by Michael Crichton '65--Harvard's second-most-successful pulp author--concerning, fittingly enough, a slick young Harvard entrepreneur who pays his club dues by engaging in Cambridge drug traffic. ("Financing Higher Education through Student Enterprise," as they say.) Sack Theatres, the Boston outlet for this creation, decided that a real-life Harvard tie-in would be just the thing, so they wrote to the President offering to make the premier a Harvard benefit. But the idea of the University affiliating itself with a business venture concerning...
...good film critics haven't changed. There are still only a few, mostly the same ones who wrote ten years ago. But there is also a slough of college-educated hipsters and slick-journalist hypesters who probably wanted to be film critics since the time when they scanned their first blurb. And for no better reason than wanting to be a blurb themselves someday...
...Kael or Simon, he applies it to more different kinds of subject matter. Second, he has what it takes to know when to tub-thump hard, and when to leave well enough alone. It's called "Balance". Third, he's a better writer than even the smoothest of the slick mags' stable. His style is extremely personal: mostly wryly clever, but sometimes almost lyrical. And it moves as cleanly as a well-oiled trip-lock...