Word: slicking
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...characters in Dealing are cutouts from Time and Life. Like the magazines, they are slick, phony, packaged. So is the book. And the book is also dangerous, because the Crichtons have added hip sociology to the recipe. For example...
...very glib, all true to widely varying extents, all very "now" things to say. All offensive, especially in their slick matrix, but not particularly pernicious. Unfortunately, Harkness shares other insights that are far more insidious. For instance, he criticizes "a fervent Marxist-Leninist" acquaintance: "We figured that any changes that were really going to happen were going to happen in people's heads . . . . So we blew our dope and stayed in our heads . . . . " Yet, describing the transformation of his friends and himself from straight to freak, Harkness includes the stage when "your parents [see] a picture...
...same, Newhall has found himself a "first-aid job." Last week he took over as editor of San Francisco magazine, a slick, so-far ineffectual, city monthly with 31,000 circulation...
Born. To Grace Slick, 31, acid-voiced rock singer, and Paul Kantner, 29, guitarist, both of Jefferson Airplane fame: a daughter; in San Francisco. Name: "god" (a small g). No plans for marriage: god will have no surname. Said Grace: "Art Linkletter and Al Capp will be disappointed to learn that she is very healthy, in spite of what they say about drug-crazed hippies...
This is a deft little novel-and more. It is a shaggy-dog story about marijuana that will amuse potheads, yet remain palatable to middle-class matrons who wonder why Junior is both amorphous and resentful. In short, a very slick piece of work...