Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detective picture is on trial when every time Tony Rome opens a door, there's either a corpse, a gunman, or a naked girl situated vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. True, the state of the American detective picture is low, but not that low. Tony Rome is the most synthetically slick movie since Goldfinger, and affords a point-by-point lesson in how to write dialogue that is neither credible nor cool...
Penn's first goal was attributable to luck and the weather, but the Quakers eliminated any cause for complaint with two undisputably earned tallies. The icebreaker came in the mud and slick left over from a pre-game rain...
...past, that when it comes to the election itself, the public will take the issues of the day more seriously than they. It ceases to be a game-between human justice, the fate of nations and mankind, on the one hand, and on the other, a few slick party deals...
...three huge elevators that make up the sectional stage are so warped with age that they meet unevenly, varying as much as an inch in many spots. With that hazard, as well as puddles from a simulated April Showers, or droppings from camels in the Nativity pageant, or oil slick from a fleet of autos used to ferry the chorus onstage, the girls are lucky to land on their toes and not their backsides. On one occasion a Rockette slipped in a cloud of steam hissing up through holes in the stage, plummeted into the orchestra pit and squashed...
...Detroit TV commentator whose question brought on George Romney's Viet Nam "brainwashing" response spends less than half of his waking hours as a newsman. During daylight, Lou Gordon, 49, is a $50,000-a-year middleman for a women's-clothing manufacturer. He wears slick suits, a toupee-and sometimes a gun. By moonlight, he is a part-time expose specialist on Detroit radio (WXYZ) and UHF television (WKBD). For more than a decade, he has been collecting ugly facts in Detroit and spilling them out to a mildly fascinated public. Always, he says, in the interest...