Word: slickness
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Garbage Somewhere. It does not seem to matter that Nancy can just barely carry a tune. The slick arrangements, the electronic doctoring and the charisma of the Sinatra name carry her along very well, just as they do her singer brother, Frank Jr., 23. Junior, however, does not have Sis's smoky sex appeal. With her lemur eyes, her pouty lips and luxuriant swirls of streaked blonde hair, she comes on like Mata Hari in a miniskirt...
...Gentle People, a paean to a love that might have been, and Mortmain, a chronicle of a mistress's revenge for a love that was, are too slick, but, on the whole, so well told that one scarcely minds. It is in Cheap in August that Greene delivers the full measure of his talents...
...including the Robert Kennedys, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, there was "puckish horseplay" as the mourners recoiled from shock. Everyone knew that Ethel Kennedy often wore a wig; during the meal, it was "snatched off and passed from head to head, winding up . . .on the slick pate of the Secretary of Defense...
August as Usual. The first dire predictions that the oil would pollute England's beaches for ten or 15 years were soon proved wrong. By week's end, while huge pools of slick remained offshore in a calm sea-thus remaining vulnerable to continued attack by detergents-the defenders had managed to keep sufficiently ahead of the incoming oil to clear most of the beaches. Prime Minister Wilson insisted that all the beaches and the sea would be clear by summer, urged vacationers not to cancel their plans. To illustrate his faith in his own prediction, he announced...
National preferences and practices in birth control vary astonishingly, without regard to education or socioeconomic levels. The highly sophisticated Swedes are educated in contraception early, and get frequent reminders in slick magazine ads. In affluent, literate West Germany, the pills and lUDs are little used; abortions equal live births-every year, 1,000,000 of each. France forbids the importation of birth-control materials; only a few women in elite private clubs pour le planning familial enjoy their benefits; again, abortion is rampant, as it is in Italy and an endless list of other, supposedly civilized nations. In most Iron...