Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HARPER. As a private eye on a kidnaping case, Paul Newman bites off a chunk of the grand old Bogart tradition and spits it out in slick '60s style. Lauren Bacall, Arthur Hill, and Julie Harris help to complicate the plot...
...National Guard armory; the gilt and crimson interior has become a tawdry relic of bygone splendor. The grimy walls are veined with ominous cracks, the plaster is flaking, the gold leaf is peeling, the faded red carpeting is frayed and splotched. The creaking red velvet seats are worn slick and the stage floor is pitted and warped. Backstage, the dingy corridors are cluttered with props and tarpaulins. In Caruso's old dressing room, illuminated by a naked light bulb, cracks in the window have been plugged with paper and Scotch tape. When a bevy of ballerinas swept onstage recently...
...game, rank and destination are established beyond doubt. He is hellbent for Bogart country, that raw, rich Big Sleep milieu; and this Warner Brothers revival of a grand old tradition gets him there in style. Based on Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target, and accelerated at a slick '60s pace by Director Jack Smight, Harper gives Newman his feistiest role since...
...Ginzberg case is the most significant, for it demonstrates clearly the contortions the Justices are undergoing as they try to determine how much protection the public needs from men who write dirty books. Ginzberg had been indicted in 1962 for distributing through the mail a slick-paper, hard-cover glorification of sex called Eros. He was sentenced to five years in jail and fined...
...Muscovite" (i.e., Stalinist) elements in the Rumanian army, and two years later took over the "Sovroms"-mixed Soviet-Rumanian companies, in which Russia had always controlled 51% and which handled most of Rumania's oil refining, river traffic and other key businesses. As always, the moves were slick and carefully timed so that Moscow was looking in another direction when Dej acted. A lover of fast cars who drove a supercharged Mercedes, Dej saved his caution for politics. But when he was ready to make his big move, the gear change was smooth and swift...