Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...format is impressive, but slick to the point of slipperiness. The expensive paper and the professional-looking ads look like a page out of Art News. The quality of the prose is high, but the articles are overburdened with a preponderance of art 'philosophizing that is not terribly meaningful. In general, the magazine tends to emphasize the virtuosity of each contributing author rather than the intrinsic importance of the subject itself...
...technique is flawless, but his repertory grows slick and showy. The fingers remain like coiled springs; the man, too, is tense and overwound. He refuses to fly, cannot rest on trains. His fee rises from $500 to $3,000 per concert; he works only six months a year and never gives more than two concerts a week. Still, the springs keep tightening, the stomach keeps churning. Hypochondria becomes real illness. There is an injured finger, tonsillitis, flu, a stomach ailment-then, abruptly, the spring breaks, the mechanism winds down, the long pyrotechnics stop short. Horowitz takes a vacation. The vacation...
Some of the performances, however, nearly transcend their material. Jack Cassidy as the gossip columnist Max Mencken is unbelievably slick and professional. Michael O'Sullivan hams to a proper excess as a ten-time Nobel Prize loser who takes revenge on the world by trying to destroy its culture-hero, Superman. Bob Holiday's deadpan makes him perfect for the title role...
HARPER. As a private eye on a kidnaping case, Paul Newman bites off a chunk of the Bogart tradition and spits it out in slick '60s style. Lauren Bacall, Arthur Hill and Julie Harris complicate the plot...
...most critical postures taken toward contemporary (really contemporary) writing. ("You know," he said, "I can smell a bad book without even opening it. I almost never review them,") And if he has little use for certain critics, resting on descriptive generalizations about his poems and resisting all the slick formulas, the critics have developed very little...