Word: slickness
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Frankfurter's third favorite was Naples-born Rico Lebrun, who first made a hit in the U.S. with slick fashion drawings and illustrations. "But with the beginning of the last war," Frankfurter says, "first his subject matter and then his art started to reveal his real profundity. About five years ago, he began work on sketches for a great Crucifixion that has since assumed a quite different evolution. The monumental picture probably never will be painted, but the specific moments of the great symbol of suffering and regeneration are becoming individual pictures...
Hananiah Harari is a slick, meticulous commercial artist whose sharp-focus Coca-Cola ads, whisky displays (Old Sunny Brook) and magazine covers (FORTUNE) look even more real than the photographs he often paints from. He is also a solemn abstractionist. Last week Harari's "serious" paintings were on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery. They looked like nothing so much as houses built of cards for a game unknown to Hoyle...
...inviting New York's slick-haired Gambler Frank Costello to testify about gambling, the U.S. Senate had been strictly high class all the way: it had not only communicated with him in a manner befitting his station (i.e., through his attorney) , but had arranged to have cops at the airport to prevent any possible chance of his getting plugged on arrival. Last week, as he waited to keep his appointment, the "Prime Minister of the Underworld" was determined to be just as polite to the Senate...
Papa Marzotto did not want his four boys to race. It was raining hard, the mountain roads were slick and treacherous, and there was word of snow in the passes. A veteran road-racer himself before he got too busy with his textile business, 55-year-old Father Marzotto knew about such things. But this race was the Mille Miglia, Italy's most important road contest for stock cars, and the Marzotto brothers were determined to drive their Ferraris in the big international field of 383 drivers, many of them Europe's top professionals. As it turned...
When Painter Edvard Munch wrote these words in Paris, in 1890, he was a slick, gloomy art student of 26 with the whole world still to conquer. By the time he died at 80, Munch's unabashedly emotional art was revered throughout northern Europe. Last week, for the first time, it got a comprehensive showing...