Word: slickness
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...towns, even the slick young men in shiny black shoes and sports shirts stop flirting with their plump, pinch-waisted girl friends as the loudspeakers switch from the new music of the pachanga to news: "Old Mr. Herter is preparing ships and men at the Key West naval station to invade Cuba." At the Esso station, a workman paints the pumps green as a reminder that the revolution has changed Cuba so much that even the gasoline, refined from Russian oil, is different...
...around this problem, the Field mill starts with used slick, magazine-type paper, which is not only cheaper than used newsprint in the Chicago area but has a 30% fiber content compared with newsprint's 15%-20% and holds up better in the chemical dissolution process...
...Golden Noose. Hoisted to these heights by the noose that hung Tom Dooley-the ballad was sleeping in an album they cut early in 1958-the Kingston Trio have added to the burgeoning U.S. folk music boom (see Music) a slick combination of near-perfect close harmony and light blue humor. To help their predominantly collegiate and post-collegiate audiences identify with them, the three do their best to festoon themselves in Ivy, wear button-down shirts, even chose the name Kingston because it had a ring of Princeton about it as well as a suggestion of calypso. Sporting close...
Divorced. François Sagan (born Quoirez), 25, France's slick novelist of disillusioned sex; and Publishing Executive Guy Schoeller, 44; after two years of marriage, no children; in Paris...
...author stalks his favorite game -the "Sears Roebuck Gothic" Midwesterners with souls imprisoned like "buzzing flies" in "God's cocoon." Morris has been compared variously to Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, even Mickey Spillane, but in this, his 13th book, he sounds more like a kind of slick-paper Nathanael West, without that gifted writer's savage humor. His story is wired to the tangled nerve ends of the collection of oddballs and misfits who stumbled in unrelieved bewilderment through The Field of Vision, including a sagging, dyspeptic housewife who stands weepingly on varicose-veined legs over...