Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present state, Golden Boy is a tough, slick and inventive outline for what might become the most exciting musical drama since Gypsy. When it flexes its muscles in music and dance, it has the aura of excitement of a prize fight. But the external glitter does not hide the fact that it has muscle without marrow, a shiny surface but no depth...
...Europe's hairiest: the road twists through four tortuous hairpins, uncurling finally into a long "straightaway" that is an assortment of dips, hills and fast curves that are taken at upwards of 150 m.p.h. But last week Solitude was downright dangerous. A cloudburst turned the asphalt slick as ice; and it was still pouring dime-sized drops when 18 Formula I cars roared away from the grid, roostertails of spray streaming in their wake...
...Slick as Ice. If Tony Lema had eve served on convoy duty in World War II, he might have known what to expect. At 30, he was far too young, am what's more, he had never even seen th Old Course before. Neither had Jack Nicklaus, 24, whose $24,000 victor the week before in the Whitemarsh Open put him back on top of pro golf's money-winning list (with $81,718) demonstrated that he was once more at the peak of his game-and persuaded British bookies to install him as the favorite...
...irrepressible high spirits of a girl who is out to win the Derby astride a dead horse. As a comedienne, she spurns subtlety but makes the shortcoming seem a solid gold asset in a character who boasts: "I'm a vulgar, extravagant nouveau riche American!" She even works slick, if slightly unnerving, pathos into a moment of pining over her wedding ring, a jewel-encrusted cigar band bearing the fond inscription: "Always Remember Two Things-That I Love You, and the Name of the Bank...
...optimistic poll forecast a clear-cut Labor victory. A correspondent for TIME and Newsweek before he became a speechwriter for the Conservatives, Griffiths was accused by Labor of feeding the Prime Minister uncharacteristic lines full of unfashionable alliterations: on one occasion, Home had referred to Harold Wilson as "this slick salesman of synthetic science." Griffiths, however, proved himself a slick and energetic salesman of Conservatism. Drawing on his experience as a pig farmer, he spoke tirelessly about practical issues (agriculture, housing, jobs), got up at dawn to help the stableboys at Newmarket exercise their horses...