Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 1,000 ex-service flyers started freight lines at war's end, but only eight lines of-any consequence are still flying. The biggest of these is Slick Airways, Inc., of San Antonio. Last week, the line's young (26) president, Earl F. Slick, who is also president of Independent Airfreight Association, laid the independents' case before the President's Air Policy Commission. "If this rate goes through," he warned, "we'll all be bankrupt in six months...
...Slick argued that on present air-freight volume, the proposed rate was less than cost. Slick knew what he was talking about. His line had flown 14 million revenue ton-miles in 1946, almost as much as all the scheduled airlines together...
...that game!! Mama bought all those slick get-ups for me, the purple dress with matching glasses; that chartreuse number guaranteed to make sober men think they've had enough; that low-out orange one whose method of support is still uncertain . . . One thing bothers me; I didn't tell mama that these cocktail conglomerations are in men's ROOMS. I'm not sure that I understand THAT. I've boned up on Emily Post; but she doesn't mention such places...
Author Born sees a new trend, "precisionism," in modern U.S. still life. To his taste, the best living still-lifer in the U.S. is Charles Sheeler, a precisionist who likes painting machines and whose machine-smooth technique often looks as slick as a glossy photograph. "Sheeler's interpretation of the machine," writes Born, "in all its apparent austerity, is ... mechanization . . . humanized. Hence he not only forms the zenith of a development but also points the way to a new goal." That sounded rather like a plastic apple arc-welded to a bulletproof dish-and it did not sound much...
...Powell & Pressburger have made the most of some melodramatic scenes and have hooked together many close-ups of uncommon sensitiveness and force. But in spite of a considerable lavishing of talent and good intention, Black Narcissus remains a striking sample of bad art, combining the least attractive features of slick and long-haired fiction...