Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Increasingly," he says, "only a very small number of people think of running for office at all, unless they are professional politicians or people with large private means. Mine is what I call a citizen candidacy, as opposed to a slick-operation professional candidacy. My effort is to establish a new model in politics. Of all the political careers in history, President Kennedy's has been the most expensive, from the moment he ran for the House. I think it is time for somebody to speak out against this...
...championship in his first year on the job, was two-or three-men deep at most positions. Between them, Pitchers Whitey Ford and Luis Arroyo had won 40 games in 1961. Roger Maris had clouted 61 homers; Mickey Mantle had hit 54; Catcher Elston Howard had batted .348. The slick-fielding Yankee infield was the best in baseball. The Yankees seemed a sure shot to win their twelfth pennant in 14 years...
Since its birth in 1946. France's slick Réalités Magazine (circ. 125,000 monthly in French, 65,000 in English) has harbored persistent doubts about the U.S.'s continuing vitality and sense of purpose. In 1953 the magazine sent a team across the Atlantic to take America's pulse; the report was generally favorable. But the French can be only so charitable about U.S. culture, and the misgivings remained. Now Réalités has produced another exhaustive study of the U.S., the result of a five-month, 19,000-mile tour...
...olde,' or, as for example is happening on the West Coast, the in dulgence in 'Japanesery.' This may even be tolerable, although derivative, eclectic, or full of gimcracks, when the alternatives are considered ... the chrome and glass, spit and polish, modular articulated, cur tain wall, mechanistic, slick finish, straight and endless directions which are spring ing up around...
Then, suddenly, the idyll collapsed. The tower walls turned out to be not ivory but papier-maché, and in the winds of controversy they all came tumbling down. By spring, 1962, the Radcliffe girl found herself exposed to public view on a not-entirely-comfortable plateau. The slick-paper magazines had discovered in her a whole new target for cliches. "Beauties with brains!" bellowed Time in surprise (or was it indignation?), but ran a group of pictures which seemed to disprove the contention. Writing in Holiday, a former 'Cliffie reminisced lyrically and tastelessly over the pleasures of the past...