Word: slickness
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...always avoid the errors he denounced. He could be sugary at times, slick at others. But in such paintings as The Family, he had the quiet power that comes only to one who has command of his art and still sees beyond. "The artist," he told his students, "must show people more-more than they already see, and he must show them with so much human sympathy and understanding that they will recognize it as if they themselves had seen the beauty and the glory...
...race for "slick" v. "celestial" space, there's no denying that the women are ahead-from "I like Ike" to "j'adore Jacqueline" in less than a year...
...pillared pool at the San Francisco Olympic Club was boiling with activity. Swimmers darted like dragonflies across its surface while they juggled a 9-in. inflated ball with aquatic agility. Spring-legged goalies exploded from the water to bat down the slick, wet ball whenever it was heaved at their 10-ft.-wide nets. But as the Olympic Club and the Lynwood Athletic Club of Downey, Calif., fought it out for the A.A.U. indoor water polo championship last week, spectators and referee alike were only partially interested in the fancy teamwork, the precise passing and the tireless swimming. They spent...
...feel the Lord's name burning in your throat?" asks Preacher George Hamilton of Salome, who has lost her speech in infancy and "grown up wild." Well, then, "Believe! Believe and say 'God!' Say it! Say it!" Salome, swept away by George's oil-slick, sensual emotionalism, says it-"God!"-again and again "in humility and gratitude and ecstasy." George runs a traveling caravan that swizzles bourbon with its brimstone, and Salome, or Angel Baby, as they call her, hooks up. Brother George was long ago spliced to Mercedes McCambridge, a twisted, Bible-quoting shrike...
...gambled on Rookies Jake Wood, 23, Steve Boros, 24, and Phil Regan, 24. All three bets have paid off. Regan, a fastballing righthander, has the lowest earned-run average among Tiger pitchers (2.12), has won four games and lost none so far this season. Second Baseman Wood is a slick fielder and a long-ball hitter who resembles the Chicago Cubs' Ernie Banks at the plate. Third...