Word: slickness
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...letter was extraordinary not only because a Cabinet member felt compelled to criticize the Administration, but because the source was Hickel. To most liberals, intellectuals and environmentalists, he had all the allure of an oil slick when he became Richard Nixon's Interior Secretary, An Alaska millionaire, onetime real estate magnate and hotel owner, he was widely viewed as a yes man for business, more interested in conglomerates than conservation. Since Hickel took over Interior, however, he has shown himself to be deeply concerned about environmental issues and willing to work with young activists to get the job done...
Irving admires girl jockeys, however. "Barbara Jo Rubin has as much heart as men have. In New Orleans, she took the stake. She outslicked Robert L. Boyd, the slick himself. She let him go out there, took him off the pace at the eighth pole, crowded him at the sixteenth, and beat him at the wire...
...breeze of sanity and reality. His stories and novels portary a life which vanished with the thud of German army boots-that of the shtetl, the Eastern European Jewish village. Not surprisingly, many of his simple tales and anecdotes of the old country ring with more authenticity than the slick, cynical products of our modern literati...
Walter Gieseking: Mozart's Complete Music for Piano Solo (11 disks, 3 volumes; $32.78; Seraphim). Gieseking's Mozartian style has slid out of fashion somewhat since these recordings were made in the early 1950s; nowadays he is considered just a bit slick and overrefined. But concert pianists, more conscious of quality than fashion, still justly envy the high gloss and exquisite workmanship of Gieseking. Seraphim's low price and lucid reproduction of the mono-only sound make the release a prize for the economy-minded...
...prosecutor was a stodgy, humorless sort who spoke in impenetrable legal jargon and once, while examining his witness on the term "pig," inquired: "Officer, were there any animals of the porcine specie there?" The defense attorney was a dynamic 28-year-old who may have seemed too cocky and slick to the Colorado jurors...