Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the company mounted several fine productions during its first few seasons, there was grumbling about Kelly's slick Northern ways, about "buying foreign" and "squandering" money on opera. Salvation came in the form of two Dallas millionaires with the unlikely names of James Bond, now president, and Henry Miller, chairman of the board. From their pockets and those of friends, they corralled enough contributions to help the company through its financial crises...
...awakening of youth, its internal revolt, is a sign of a healthy defiance," Mumford said. "The weird haircuts, the outlandish dress announce their refusal to have anything to do with a slick, mech...
Georgy has other chances to moralize. She is, after all, the good-hearted fat girl badgered by a bunch of slick, corrupt elders: a bitchy nymphomanic roommate who deserts her own child and runs off with an anonymous sugar daddy; a ne'er-do-well lover who quits his job, ignores his baby, and calls Georgy "fat face;" and a butler father who pressures her to marry his leering middle-aged employer. Plain, put-upon, hugging her baby-care books to her ample front, Georgy is supposed to be a sympathetic figure; but what the director and the weeping girls...
...Bishop Pike's courage is magnificent, but my feelings about him are ambivalent. He seems to lack discipline. Are his garish slogans and slick phrases really necessary? They seem only to arouse the anger of the more dogmatic members of the church. The Episcopal Church is remarkable for its liberal thought, and surely is not offended by Pike's questioning, but only by his method of questioning. He has shown himself capable of deeo reflection and perceptive expression. Discipline rightly used will not diminish his message, but will polish and refine it into the harmonizing and reforming force...
...Florence, the tide tore through the walls of jewelers' shops on the Ponte Vecchio (built in 1345) and inundated the Piazza, della Signoria. Propelling logs and other debris, it piled autos into heaps of smashed steel and left a thick oil slick in its wake. Hundreds of rare manuscripts and books were destroyed in the slime. The water knocked out five panels of Ghiberti's "Doors of Paradise," the famed bronze reliefs on the doors of the Baptistery near the Duomo. It wrecked the priceless 13th century crucifix by Cimabue in the Museum of Santa Croce...