Word: slickness
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...here comes summer. Compulsive skiing, like any other addiction, has withdrawal symptoms. Lenny is driven down below the retreating snow line to scrounge a living however he can: below 5,000 ft., after all, anything goes. At just this point the novel begins a long, slick schuss into sentimentality, for what goes this time is the sure novelistic cure for male cynicism-a pretty girl. Bright, earnest and conveniently voluptuous, she is upset because her father, a U.S. diplomat, is so absolutely sweet and wonderful but a hopeless drunk. She is further upset when Pope John dies; so, naturally...
Yale's attack is centered around their slick, high-scoring backcourt combination of Bob Trupin and Herb Broadfoot. The Elis have a slight height advantage over the Crimson, with a front line of 6-5 Tom McCaffrey, 6-4 Rick Johnson, and 6-5 Don Taylor...
...though expected for some time, caused an uproar. The London Daily Express called it "an outrageous interference with the rights we enjoy, nothing less than a sinister erosion of freedom in Britain." Many Britons simply regretted the demise of the slick cigarette commercials, many of which draw more rave notices than the regular programs. The sell is soft and jingles are out, but the British are attracted by the scenes of mountain streams, horse country and fast sports cars...
...elusive slick-haired, fast talking salesman a table-to-table tour of the Union yesterday peddling HSA Samplers without the knowledge of Dean Watson, the Secretary of the Union...
...lazily up an Alp. Looks like any other Aston Martin? Look again. This rod has bulletproof windows, and can change license plates at the flick of a switch. Its radioscope tracks a bugged automobile 240 km. away. From vents in the rear it releases a smokescreen and an oil slick. From ports in the grille it protrudes a pair of machine guns. What's more, the rear axle of the chariot is armed with bladed hub caps that telescopically extend to chew up the rubber of an overtaking vehicle. And if the driver should decide to ditch an obstreperous...