Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elusive slick-haired, fast talking salesman a table-to-table tour of the Union yesterday peddling HSA Samplers without the knowledge of Dean Watson, the Secretary of the Union...
...Bogged down in the dark morass of existential despair, most postwar European art either has lacked the tenacity of U.S. abstract expressionism or was bowled over by the impact of pop. COBRA'S impish founders meld genial monsters with bright hues to make a joyful vision. Never sallow, slick nor stuffily sober, this art draws from dreams, not nightmares...
After a promising beginning, Father Goose hits the shoals and settles down as a slick but superficial imitation of The African Queen. Its darling juveniles strain their precocity to freshen up the familiar fireworks between a proper young lady and an improper gent. The war itself looks like one of the livelier attractions at Disneyland. Grant and Caron endure pretty little hardships, finally try to get married by a chaplain over short-wave radio during a Japanese strafing attack...
...lazily up an Alp. Looks like any other Aston Martin? Look again. This rod has bulletproof windows, and can change license plates at the flick of a switch. Its radioscope tracks a bugged automobile 240 km. away. From vents in the rear it releases a smokescreen and an oil slick. From ports in the grille it protrudes a pair of machine guns. What's more, the rear axle of the chariot is armed with bladed hub caps that telescopically extend to chew up the rubber of an overtaking vehicle. And if the driver should decide to ditch an obstreperous...
Citing Kerr's book, Uses of the University, Savio asserted that the University President views students as the "raw material" who are fed into the knowledge factory, "where all the rough edges are taken off and smooth, slick products come...