Word: slickness
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After snowless skiing, iceless skating. At least Vinyl Plastics Inc. thinks so and has developed a warm, dry, milky-white synthetic surface that has been a hit at New York's and Philadelphia's winter sports shows, and almost lives up to its trade name, Slick. It is smooth as ice but 20% slower. Its great advantage is cost?$38,000 for a standard rink v. $300,000 for artificial ice. Skates bite easily into the surface, which has a guaranteed life of three years. Says Professional Ice Skater Randolph McCulley: "You can't cheat on Slick...
...downhill half is a quasi-documentary, reminiscent of In Cold Blood, complete with textbook-spouting psychiatrist and brooding intellectual lawyer (Henry Fonda). Fleischer obviously wants it both ways, but he gets neither. The black comedy is only dirty grey, and the psychiatric probing is reduced to a few slick optical allusions when DeSalvo crosses into zones of hallucination during Fonda's grilling...
Harvard started slowly and had trouble adjusting to UConn's 4-3-3 alignment. Concentrating on the center of the field, the Crimson jammed the middle and made it easy for slick-passing Connecticut to mother any Harvard offensive effort...
...Newman Rachel, Rachel represents a kind of exorcism of the plots and parts thrust on him in ten years as a successful movie actor. He has gone further than merely not casting himself in his first try at directing; he has cast no one remotely like himself--no slick stars--and given his actors no slick dialogue. With a little more humor and a lighter touch all around, Newman could become a really good direcor, though maybe not to the point of contributing more to a picture as director than actor. So it might in any case not be worth...
PROBABLY the best selection of posters psychedelic is at the slick but very good Truc-in-the-Alley Poster Gallery, behind the Brattle Theater. Others are scattered all over groovy Cambridge, with some interesting ones at the Harvard Square Art Center near Inman Square on Mass. Ave., a few blocks from the Union...