Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neither slick nor glib, they all suit a film that may finally disarm everyone with its full-frontal naturalness, its unsmirking bawdiness, its obvious liking for athletes as people, and its refusal (most of the time) to poeticize sport. Personal Best is likable precisely because it is so unembarrassed...
...Broadway play, is so uncritically nostalgic--not even his characters' pain seems to dampen the affection of the playwright summoning up Irish Brooklyn and the 1930s--should not be enough to warrant the unfavorable critical reaction the play has drawn. Sure, the effect on audiences is anything but the slick, lively finish that spells success for so many current musicals; nor does Alfred go in for the angst-packed, Freud-packed soul-searching that makes "serious" drama like Equus or Children of a Lesser God powerful. His tools are different...
...photographs, vivid maps and authoritative-looking charts, the glossy 78-page booklet could well have been produced on Madison Avenue. Instead it came from Moscow's stolid Military Publishing House. Whence the Threat to Peace is the Soviet Union's rejoinder to the Reagan Administration's slick 99-page analysis, released last September, of Moscow's strategic and conventional arms buildup. Many of the claims made in the Soviet booklet are false, but the production represents a quantum leap in Moscow's mastery of military propaganda...
...lines have been ironed out, leaving only the dry-ice eyes and the knowing pout. As icons, these four performers would seem perfect for the bittersweet revisionism of this musical drama about a sheet-music salesman (Martin), his frigid wife (Harper), his nice-turned-naughty mistress (Peters) and his slick rival (Walken).But icons do not always make for compelling screen personalities-especially when, as here, more is demanded than just another appropriate face...
...that he is on the run, she hides him during an impromptu visit from her 'fiance' Harvey Handcock (Jack Marshall), the town sheriff. When Harvey is replaced by a randy reporter, Arithmetic Johnson (Michael Wilkes), what ensues is a bawdy comedy in the best saloon style. The acting is slick, the delivery as rapid and well-placed as a six-shot showdown. Both Linda Cameron and Bart McCarthy salvage the evening completely, as the innocent tottering on the verge of tarnish and the demure, surprisingly naive, robber. Surrounded by an appropriate cast, they are a touching couple of misfits...