Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known by the enemies he has made, and believes that it is possible to do something for everybody. It calls for an identification with the entire populace, and using the populace's own words to talk to it. It is part sentimentality, part love; part forceful action, part slick derring-do. It believes unswervingly in the present and thinks the future can be better-under the benign guidance of Johnsonism...
...Magnificent Seven, a western based on Kurosawa's epic tale of the samurai. Assigned to this prickly task are Star Paul Newman, Director Martin Ritt and Photographer James Wong Howe, all covered with pay dirt from their triumphant collaboration in Hud. The result this time is a slick, shallow olio of rape, murder and violence...
...cities and morality in the country that Goldwater struck his main theme. "If the tone of America is not set by men in public service," he said, "it will be set, as unfortunately it is being set too often today, by the standards of the sick joke, the slick slogan, the off-color drama, and the pornographic book. It is on our streets that we see the final, terrible proof of a sickness which not all the social theories of a thousand social experiments has even begun to touch. Crime grows faster than population, while those who break...
...notably lacking in drama. There will, of course, be a few sticky chores falling to the chairman of the Credentials Com mittee. For that post Johnson wisely picked Pennsylvania's former Governor David L. Lawrence, 75, a longtime, party pro who has a flair for hammering out a slick, smooth compromise...
Golden Boy gets close to its main character only in song. The original play's conflict has been exchanged for a drive forward, a hurling action toward the inevitable end, accented by the show's slick surface and fast movement. We feel the measure of Joe Wellington as different pressures reveal themselves at different points of his career, but we do not come in close contact with the source of these pressures in the man himself. Golden Boy has many moments that are tangentially exciting. As of now, its inventiveness has not become true creation...