Word: slickness
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...docks in Freeport, Texas one day last week, 238 disabled veterans boarded an odd-looking fleet of 56 boats, ranging from battered shrimpers to slick and polished yachts. The vets were off for a day of fishing. For the blind, there were special lines with tufts of silk placed at regular intervals to show how much line was out; for one-armed fishermen there were special devices to wind the reels. Both the expedition-and the fishing aids-were the productions of Columnist Ralph Alexander ("Andy") Anderson of Scripps-Howard's Houston Press. A little...
They pondered a chamber full of half-reptilian horrors and nocturnal landscapes by slick old Surrealist Max Ernst, and voted him one of the three grand prizes of $2,400, presumably for the importance of being Ernst. Another grand prize went to a roomful of gay blobs and squiggles done in primary colors by the artful Catalan, Joán MirÓ, who has made a career of painting like a five-year-old, only better. The grand prize for sculpture was awarded to playful and mysterious Alsatian Jean Arp and his crowd of polished bronze and marble lumps, each...
...kept doggedly on. He was a passably handsome youth, in a slick, Valentino way, and he had a taste for good clothes. He got the second lead in a Broadway play, Swifty. His performance, Alexander Woollcott wrote, could be "mercifully described as inadequate." But gradually he learned. "There's an awful lot of bunk written about acting," he says. "But it isn't easy. You can't just make faces. If you make yourself feel the way the character would feel, your face will express the right things-if you're an actor. There are lots...
...political demagoguery. Rationality, however, does not necessarily come with age. Subjective, irrational considerations influence the white-collar worker of 30 as surely as they affect the high-school student of 18. The housewife with a son in Korea and the farmer who "distrusts foreigners" are easy targets for slick political oratory. If the voting age were lowered, high schools would place an even greater emphasis on civics and American history than they do now, to prepare their students to vote intelligently...
...Slick Sticker. A labeling tape which will stick fast to greasy metal has been brought out by Labelon Tape Co., Inc. of Rochester, N.Y. Developed for the automotive industry, Oil-Stik is now being used to mark car parts before they are shipped to assembly points. The tape is coated with a special adhesive that mixes with protective oil coatings to make a powerful glue. Price: $1.75 for 60 yds. of inch-wide tape...