Word: slickness
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Some of the performances, however, nearly transcend their material. Jack Cassidy as the gossip columnist Max Mencken is unbelievably slick and professional. Michael O'Sullivan hams to a proper excess as a ten-time Nobel Prize loser who takes revenge on the world by trying to destroy its culture-hero, Superman. Bob Holiday's deadpan makes him perfect for the title role...
HARPER. As a private eye on a kidnaping case, Paul Newman bites off a chunk of the Bogart tradition and spits it out in slick '60s style. Lauren Bacall, Arthur Hill and Julie Harris complicate the plot...
...most critical postures taken toward contemporary (really contemporary) writing. ("You know," he said, "I can smell a bad book without even opening it. I almost never review them,") And if he has little use for certain critics, resting on descriptive generalizations about his poems and resisting all the slick formulas, the critics have developed very little...
HARPER. As a private eye on a kidnaping case, Paul Newman bites off a chunk of the grand old Bogart tradition and spits it out in slick '60s style. Lauren Bacall, Arthur Hill, and Julie Harris help to complicate the plot...
...Ginzberg case is the most significant, for it demonstrates clearly the contortions the Justices are undergoing as they try to determine how much protection the public needs from men who write dirty books. Ginzberg had been indicted in 1962 for distributing through the mail a slick-paper, hard-cover glorification of sex called Eros. He was sentenced to five years in jail and fined...