Word: slickness
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...city is a grey suspicion of dawn, the hour when streetwalkers quit, grifters count their take, and busted junkies begin to jitter with the inside sweats. He is a loner, but his world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard. He is furiously honest, but he can spot a rigged wheel with a sharper's skill. He is hard-muscled, handsome, handy with a snub-nosed...
Ever growing, H.S.A. now handles beer mugs, college banners, birthday cakes, desk blotters, charter flights to Europe, three linen services, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, refrigerators, class rings, stationery, reserve book returns, long-distance furniture moving, and, of course, "milk, doughnuts and sandwiches." It publishes a slick paper guide for summer school students, and in termtime, the weekly Student Calendar. It runs a grill in the Union and in Eliot House; it sells hot-dogs in the stadium...
...Snider v. the White Sox's Wynn, Kluszewski and Lollar). The Dodgers won because their defense turned the touted Chicago go-go attack to molasses. The whiplash throws of Catcher John Roseboro allowed only two White Sox to steal second in the entire Series. The Dodgers' slick infield, built around the double-play combination of Shortstop Maury Wills and Second Baseman Charley Neal, both lean and limber as greyhounds, outmatched Chicago's famed duo of Shortstop Luis Aparicio and Second Baseman Nellie Fox (7 double plays...
...playwright achieved any coherent form for his work. June Havoc as Joanne deLynn, a slick showgirl type over-the-hill, ponders the morality of an affair with a younger man, finally deciding morality is not a pertinent question. Completely unrelated to this, Ruth Arnold (Julie Harris) is fighting her battle, or laying her trap, for handsome Jack Williams (Farley Granger), whose intentions are less than honorable...
Billy Wilder's Sabrina has been around since 1954 and is back at our favorite theatre. It is a very good film: and, for a "slick comedy of manners, money, and martinis," sensibly written and surprisingly intimate in spots. Unfortunately, some bad jumps in the soundtrack indicate the print that the Brattle has this week is not a terribly good...