Word: slickness
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...washup; Andrews placidly playing croquet on his front lawn under the snout of an anti-aircraft battery. The film is marred by wearisome repetition and by a climactic confused sea battle between miniature U.S. and Japanese fleets. But even toy battleships do not seriously impede the progress of a slick, fast-moving entertainment aswarm with characters who seem quick-witted, courageous, and just enough larger than life to justify another skirmish in the tired old Pacific...
...innocence. He starts checking the mileage of her midget car, monitors her phone calls, has her followed, even fakes a business trip and sneaks back home with blanket, thermos, flashlight and binoculars to reconnoiter his own patio. The evening ends disastrously, and the movie ends as a slick burlesque that contains an agreeable amoral lesson: the fool who stalks his wife's virtue as though it were big game is apt to bag peace of mind along with a pair of horns...
...Campen, whose fall record this year includes victories in both the Greater Boston Intercollegiate and the ECAC New England Regional tournaments. Harvard won both these meets, with the top five men averaging under 80, Campen participated in the entire fall tournament schedule without shooting a double bogey, averaging a slick...
...majority of white Americans are sick and tired of seeing mobs of troublemakers, malcontents and beatniks parade the streets. Irresponsible students (out for kicks, some interracial sex and "unholy discontent"), slick politicians, and a few left-wing labor leaders are hardly representative of the public. Priests, nuns, ministers and rabbis have no right to run down South to turn a horrible mockery of law and order into a religious crusade...
...American women took to thermals for other reasons. "I love that oldfashioned, hand-knit look," said one New York housewife. "I'm so tired of everything being made slick and plastic and impersonal." Housewives also value its practicality: while wool blankets tend to emerge from the washing machine feeling like congealed cardboard, cotton thermals neither stiffen nor shrink, and they do not carry the static electricity that is the plague of lightweight synthetic brands...