Word: slickness
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...tortuous, intermittently rain-slick racecourse at Sebring, Fla., the sleek Italian Ferrari sports cars had a field day. Factory-team Ferraris finished one-two in the twelve-hour International Grand Prix of Endurance, took five of the first ten places. Winner of the other five top spots: West Germany's small, beetle-like Porsche. Notably out of it: Britain's highly touted Aston Martin and Lister-Jaguar...
...struggle against the sea there has been more than one death-filled night to remember, and Walter Lord's bestselling Titanic saga (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956) was bound to become the leader of a literary ghost-ship column. Authors Caulfield and Moscow are newsmen, and neither is as slick a writer as former Adman Lord. But they have raised their ships from the depths of forgetfulness and cast light into dark spaces...
...marches the heroine up to the edge of a cliff, forces her to look down, and coldly announces that her eyes are healed-if she can't see, it is because she does not want to see "things as they are." Things being as they are in this slick and artificial western, the spectator can hardly blame and may even envy...
There is an occasional small masterpiece like Mihail Prishvin's His First Point, a wonderfully funny dog story, but most of the tales have the upbeat endings and moral preachments common to slick magazine fiction in the U.S. At their best, the stories are filled with the continuing Russian love of the vast land: there are hard gallops through Caucasian meadows, hunters' frosty dawns, quiet hours in the white nights and birch woods of the north. Without the skill of such masters as Turgenev and Chekhov, the Soviet writers are still modestly working in the same vein...
...Goldfish (later Goldwyn), it was enough that he had the drive and energy to put together The Squaw Man, Hollywood's first full-length flicker, with He-Man Dustin Farnum. By the time DeMille produced his fifth movie, The Man from Home, in 1914, he was a slick showman. He was experimenting with artificial lighting, using shading to create the illusion of depth. When a wire from Goldwyn complained that exhibitors would pay only half price for a half-lit film, C.B. wired back: IF YOU DON'T KNOW REMBRANDT LIGHTING WHEN...