Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ballets that aim to be folksy stuff often manage to be coy, condescending, phony. But Fancy Free is as genuinely native as a buck-&-wing on a xylophone. Three bored sailors tank up and pursue three slick chicks. Some of the action is more like expert pantomime than dancing. The pantomime is often nearly as funny as that of the late great Joe Jackson, the Tramp Bicyclist. The dancing is superb -acrobatic, "specialty," rumba, softshoe, adagio, eccentric, jitterbugging, knee-drops, slapstick, and a violent, half-hidden free-for-all on the floor behind the bar. Fancy Free's success...
Colonel Poletti took hold last February. He began by renovating his four-story, red-painted, Renaissance prefettura near the Naples waterfront. He had bomb debris cleaned up, plumbing repaired, elbow grease applied to slick up the place. Explained one of his subordinates: "You can't sell democracy in an outhouse...
TheU.S. Army has some slick characters in its ranks. Army indoctrination has not changed them a whit...
...vital element in ball bearings, many other steel products. Of late it has moved to Nazi-land in increasing tonnage. Last week Turkey's Foreign Minister Numan Menomencioglu hardly took time to read an Allied protest before calling in the correspondents for a bout of oil-slick doubletalk. Said he: "I had an interview today with the British and American Ambassadors (Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen and Laurence Steinhardt). They each gave me a note and we exchanged views in the most friendly spirit ... of collaboration which characterizes our relations.... I can say no more. . . . We will...
...slick French newcomer last week joined the ranks of America's refugee publications. Title: Tricolor. Descent: from London's La France Libre, blitz-born champion of French resistance. Contents: literary appreciations of the French underground; elegant patter on a Paris midinette's chic triumph over her ersatz clothes; letters of Marcel Proust; essays on Vichy doubletalk, wartime Paris, Painter Pierre Bonnard. Editor: André Labarthe, brilliant ex-physicist, intellectual foe of Vichy, onetime friend of Charles de Gaulle, former Giraud minister, now an OWIer...