Word: slickness
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...plastic, the "bright" parts of it are warmer than the dim parts. Their heat passes through the plastic and evaporates part of the oil film, making it locally thinner. When light is turned on the oil film, it glows in the bright "interference" colors of an oil slick floating on water. The colors have nothing to do with the real colors in visible light of the object that Eva is viewing. They show thin or thick parts of the oil film-and therefore outline the object by its temperature. Hot parts show in one color, cool parts in another...
...simple thesis of this book is that tomorrow's President will not be elected by the people, nor by old-line machine bosses like The Last Hurrah's Frank Skeffington (see above), but by slick advertising boys on Madison Avenue. A candidate will be pretested and merchandised like "a can of beer, a squeeze tube of deodorant, a can of dog food...
Author Wallop starts with the old yet not indefensible notion that monogamy is the ideal rather than the natural state of man. But he might have given his story the bite of reality if he had teethed on anything but slick paper...
...right flank rode Edgar Faure, the slick-as-onionskin politician who precipitated the snap elections, and Antoine Pinay, the slow and steady little tanner from St.Chamond. They led a relatively smooth-working alliance of independents, farmers, other conservatives and Catholic M.R.P.s...
...intense portrayal of life in the hospital wards, Director Anatole Litvak uses occasional special effects with great success, particularly for the doctors' Inquisition to which each patient must submit before release. The flash-back technique, employed when doctors probe the patient's unconscious to unearth disturbing influences, is slick and convincing...