Word: slickness
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...knows how many young girls flock to the Village each year; estimates range up to 500 or higher. About 80% are white, and most are from out of state. The girls are easy pickings for the alert, dapper, slick-talking pimps, who find them around hamburger joints, huddled in doorways, cruising Washington Square Park on Sundays. Some even get picked up on arrival at the Port Authority bus terminal. Sometimes the girls are kidnaped outright, like Chickie. More often they are hungry, discouraged, possibly drug-addicted, ready for the smooth stud in the broad-brimmed hat whispering promises of food...
Ruby, bored with her husband and their lecherous, nosy neighbor, puts on a dress one evening and takes off in her schoolbus for a bit of fun. At the local nightclub she hears Earl Tibbits, a slick, cheap singer played with just the right sliminess by Danny Kosow. She waits around after the show and he takes her for a ride in his sports car. The next morning it's back to work for Ruby, but she meets Earl again the following night...
Until last fall, lean, gray-templed Garner Ted Armstrong was the quintessential religious soft-sell artist. His program called The World Tomorrow was carried on some 400 radio and 99 TV stations. His slick, free monthly called The Plain Truth went to 2,100,000 subscribers. To the millions of Americans who followed him, Garner Ted dispensed glib solutions to such problems as drugs, crime, broken marriages and delinquent children-all implicitly in the name of the Worldwide Church of God. This is a stern, bizarre sect founded in 1934 as the Radio Church of God by Garner...
...McGovern's decision to move away from a one-issue Viet Nam stance and to begin working the rich vein of voter discontent over inflation and taxes. They also warned him early that the electorate preferred straight talk to rhetoric this year and was fed up with slick media campaigns. That advice, which happily coincided both with McGovern's personality and his pocketbook, has paid off handsomely...
...Long Island's Newsday always rested, secure in the knowledge that on the other six, its 450,000 circulation covered two out of every three homes on the island. No more. Last weekend Newsday begat Sunday Newsday, complete with separate sections for commentary, entertainment, sports, comics and a slick local four-color magazine titled L.I. The management expects to sell 500,000 Sunday copies, mostly at the expense of three competitors that previously carved up the Long Island Sunday field among them: the New York Daily News, Long Island Press and New York Times. One year in the planning...