Word: slickness
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...supposed to share top billing with the other variety, but after a couple of evenings on Fraternity Row, the casual visitor gets the idea that the snow and ice and stuff is only so much window dressing. Many a ski bunny got no closer to a snowy slope or slick pond than the front stoop of Zeta...
September Affair (Paramount), a slick product for a ready market, is just what a cynic might arrive at if he tried to imagine how Hollywood would have made Britain's 1946 Brief Encounter. Like the British picture, September Affair tells a wistfully ro mantic story of a couple thrown together into what readers of women's-magazine fiction know as a love that can never...
That the salad goes down well with the American middlebrow was proved once again last week by a retrospective show of Lucioni's work in Manhattan. Visitors admired the tight, slick portraits and painstaking still lifes with which Lucioni occupies his winter months, lingered longer before his summer landscapes-stage sets for perfect vacations. Like stage sets, they are actually airless and flat, lacking both the deep perspectives of Renaissance art and the sunny sparkle of the impressionists. But all the details are there, down cold, as if under glass. It takes only a little imagination for the viewer...
...question of the mission's fate is settled when the Indian army drives off the Pathans. The question of what turned one of Britain's freshest, most talented short-story writers of the '30s into a postwar author of slick adventure fiction remains unanswered...
...theme closely like one explored six months ago in a slick first novel by Timothy Angus Jones, son of Novelist Bagnold and Sir Roderick Jones...