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...country, playing his transparent Lucite guitar, radio play-crucial to an album's success-has been very limited. Says Arista President Clive Davis: "Every artist of original talent is a commercial challenge. Quality eventually wins out." He has no intention of urging Reed to cool down or slick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lou Reed's Nightshade Carnival | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...occurred to ABC that perhaps people watch 60 Minutes because it is not slick, filled with frequent humor, and does not slide quickly over items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1978 | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...wasn't so much a test of golf as much as it was a test of survival, and that's unfortunate," said coach Bob Donovan. The windswept. greens were billiard-table slick. "Anything less than a perfect shot to the green or on the green was a mild disaster," Donovan said...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Flag, Falter in Ivy Tournament | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...there is a director, you'd never know it from the blocking or pace of the show. As in most junior high productions, whenever someone chances to display a little comic flair or intelligence--even unrefined--the effect is so exhilarating that it goes beyond moments of style in slick, even productions, and you might think that the person in question will do good things someday--in a college production, perhaps...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: In Need of Surgery | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Most serious of all, the slick could do irreparable damage to plankton and other algae. At the bottom of the ocean food chain, these simple organisms, directly or indirectly, provide sustenance -to say nothing of life-giving oxygen -for all the creatures higher up on the ladder of marine life. The Breton seaweed crop, grown for the pharmaceutical, textile and food industries, represents 90% of France's seaweed production and 75% of Europe's. This year's crop has been heavily damaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Black Tide | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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