Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This month, San Francisco's slick Ramparts magazine, a onetime Catholic quarterly turned New Left monthly, also carried several of the Jones reports, along with the outcome of what the magazine breathlessly describes as an eight-month probe by "a team of Ramparts editors, aided by researchers and trained investigators," who "traveled to Dallas a dozen times and interviewed nearly 100 people throughout the country knowledgeable about the assassination." Oddly enough, a majority of the people most closely involved in the incidents reported in the Ramparts article never heard of the magazine or its "team." Thus...
Edward Bennett Williams does not look like a criminal lawyer. He has no slick black suits, waving arms, polished mannerism, pudgy cheeks or bouncy movements about him. His sincerity, earnestness, and conservative attire completely contradict the flamboyance associated with the old-fashioned trial lawyer...
This ferocious undercutting of competitors-"fighting the parasites who put prices up," Neckermann calls it-has been the key to the firm's extraordinary progress, from his first twelve-page catalogue to the slick 619-page book now circulating. In a country where retailers regularly mark up their goods 35% to 40% and sometimes even 100% , Neckermann makes do with a profit margin of 1% or 2%. His gross sales last year were $275 million...
...this story pleasantly loses itself in the fireworks of the staging. Kaplan seems embarassed by his play and hides it underneath slick, intriguing extra baggage. A trio of dancers introduce the play and revive it every so often with some beautiful props--portable striped walls and peacock plume pens. Howard Cutler's set--a thatched Roman comedy setup--is thoroughly used by Kaplan. Unlike most Loeb sets it is reassuringly substantial and handsome...
...news im proves, though, Cronkite is convinced that it can never replace printed news. Though he feels that a half-hour news program is the equivalent of the front page of a very good newspaper, he realizes that all those other pages are still missing. "We do such a slick job," he says, "that we have deluded the public into thinking that they get all they need to know from us. And the people, if they are to exercise their franchise intelligently, need a flow of bulk information. We can't give it to them...