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...about freedom-the freedom to buy whatever the heart desired "in this democracy of ours," especially the sponsor's cigarettes. The movie was so bad that audiences booed and jeered. Since then, industrial films, which are financed by corporations to make their special pitches, have become so slick and painless that at times audiences hardly realize they are getting some propaganda with the entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Painless Plug | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller- a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...place instead of the Mandrake? Or is she dressing funny to emulate the women she saw in Vander Elk's "Paris At Midnight" photography exhibit? It is hard to tell. Are those lacerated loafers, that patched jacket, and ragged shirt collar a disdainful protests against the brandnew clothes, the slick show of affluence by the ascendant vulgar, or just magnificently down-at-heel aristocracy? Perhaps the diagnosis of a sophomore trying to look like a pre-publication existentialist is all wrong. It is hard to tell...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Creeping Continentalism: In Search of the Exotic | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

...record of Cinderella -issued well in advance of the show-was selling this week at the clip of a Broadway-hit album. However reminiscent of other Rodgers' works, the score had warmth and plenty of whirl to propel dancers through Choreographer Jonathan Lucas' gay patterns in a slick production handsomely set and costumed by William and Jean Eckhart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...dozen of the pleasantest comedies and musical comedies (An American in Paris, Father of the Bride) made in Hollywood since the '30s. And in Designing Woman, restricted still further by a plot that should have gone down the drain with bathtub gin, Director Minnelli has produced an uncommonly slick, prosperity-padded sequel to the emancipated-woman comedies of Depression times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cl N EMA: The New Pictures | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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