Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pure sleight of hand, then, when the slick, funky, jazz in the background reminds us that this boy knows the sore; he has lived with the blues. Miss Clarke throws in an ineffectual white schoolteacher to thump the point home. She used the same heavy-handed stroke of irony with the paunchy filmmaker in The Connection...
...Murphy game" is underworld argot for a slick maneuver in which a victim puts his cash in an envelope and gives it to the con man, who makes a fast sleight-of-hand switch and hands back an identical envelope stuffed with newspaper strips. It was named after an Irishman who was arrested many times for perpetrating such tricks...
...washup; Andrews placidly playing croquet on his front lawn under the snout of an anti-aircraft battery. The film is marred by wearisome repetition and by a climactic confused sea battle between miniature U.S. and Japanese fleets. But even toy battleships do not seriously impede the progress of a slick, fast-moving entertainment aswarm with characters who seem quick-witted, courageous, and just enough larger than life to justify another skirmish in the tired old Pacific...
...innocence. He starts checking the mileage of her midget car, monitors her phone calls, has her followed, even fakes a business trip and sneaks back home with blanket, thermos, flashlight and binoculars to reconnoiter his own patio. The evening ends disastrously, and the movie ends as a slick burlesque that contains an agreeable amoral lesson: the fool who stalks his wife's virtue as though it were big game is apt to bag peace of mind along with a pair of horns...
...Campen, whose fall record this year includes victories in both the Greater Boston Intercollegiate and the ECAC New England Regional tournaments. Harvard won both these meets, with the top five men averaging under 80, Campen participated in the entire fall tournament schedule without shooting a double bogey, averaging a slick...