Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Frontier. Cheap girlie magazines have always catered to prurient interests, but Evergreen is not of that ilk. It was started in 1957 as a paperbound book, publishing such unknown authors as Edward Albee, James Purdy, Samuel Beckett, Allen Ginsberg. In 1964, it was turned into a slick-paper magazine with striking art work and lots of color; its scatology is elegantly framed. With a circulation of some 160,000, the magazine recently changed from a bimonthly to a monthly...
...Garden, tuxedoed gents and long-gowned ladies crowded into the $100 ringside seats, and a total of 18,096 fans paid $658,503, the biggest indoor gate in history, to see the kind of fight card that is all too rare: a doubleheader that matched 1) Italy's slick-boxing Nino Benvenuti, 29, against Slugger Emile Griffith, 30, for the world middleweight title, and 2) Philadelphia's Joe Frazier, 24, unbeaten in 19 pro fights, against Michigan's Buster Mathis, 23, winner of 23 in a row, for the heavyweight championship of New York, Maine, Massachusetts...
...more down to earth than Eye. Put out by some recent college graduates in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who want to reach "all students, on all campuses, everywhere," it takes a leaf from Playboy: a nude centerfold that is somehow more appealing because the girl is not so slick and a rhyming comic strip about a bosomy heroine's scrapes with sex. The best article is by Edward Bastian, a graduate in political science from the University of Iowa, who spent a month in Viet Nam and captures the grime of the war. "You're always soaked, always miserable...
...large crowd turned out to see Wilson's final coaching appearance and his boys were psyched to the sky. Senior Jim Griswold made his first start and, symbolically, perhaps, got Harvard rolling with a slick...
Laurence's bold advertising copy is a lie too-a slick attempt to sell merchandise by creating illusions of spurious wellbeing. As for her husband's building developments, they represent nothing but built-in, functional ugliness. As a man, she concludes, he is just another cipher, an interchangeable part ("Why him rather than anyone else...