Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Massachusetts' slick, handsome Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. failed to answer roll call in the Senate one day last week. Colleagues soon learned why. The reading clerk droned out a letter from the Senator: he was resigning to go back into the Army. Reporters hotfooted it around to the Senator's office, learned from a secretary that Lodge was already in his major's uniform, already off somewhere on duty...
...anarchic satire cannot be suggested on paper; it is too thoroughly cinematic. It reaches its perfection in William Demarest, whose performance is one of the few solid-gold pieces of screen acting in recent years. But chief credit for The Miracle must go to Sturges, who has given the slick, growing genteelism of U.S. cinema the roughest and healthiest shaking up it has had since the disease became serious...
Banned from the mails at week's end, without a hearing, was the magazine View, slick 75?quarterly devoted almost entirely to art with a capital A. The objected-to material: reproductions of 1) surrealist nudes by Leon Kelley, 2) Picasso's Le Minotaure (in a Manhattan gallery's advertisement). Poet-Editor Charles Henri Ford stood up to fight...
...such ultra-slick modern methods, the MNR (Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario) came into pow er in Bolivia. The rebels dashed about in Lend-Lease jeeps, invaded the homes of Government leaders and dragged them off to prison. Pro-U.S. President Enrique Peñaranda was later exiled to Chile. His 80-year-old mother died of fright. Two of Bolivia's three great tin barons, Mauricio Hochschild and Carlos Victor Aramayo, went into hiding. The greatest, Simon I. Patino, was safe in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where he refused to answer the telephone...
...edition will appear in early January. It will be an ad-less, TIME-size, slick-paper weekly, will carry about twelve pages of editorials, news articles, pictures and cartoons culled from the regular Daily fail's issues. All editing will be done in London, printing in New York (from microfilm flown from England...