Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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West Side Story. This big, slick cinemusical, like the Broadway show that it is based on, decorates its hoods with halos and its cops with badges of dishonor, but its dances still seem (mostly) fresh and its Romeo and Juliet story still seems (mostly) sweet...
West Side Story. This big, slick cinemusical, like the Broadway show it is based on, decorates its hoods with haloes and its cops with badges of dishonor, but its dances still seem (mostly) fresh and its Romeo and Juliet story still seems (mostly) sweet...
...generalize too effectively about this book, for it is too various, too uneven. Freeman apparently gave his publisher poems from an earlier period, poems that are not slick at all, but quite callow. Witness: "Who can train/the weathervane/ or tell the wind/to wax or want?" (from Acrisius...
...stage show was the usual product of the R. & H. collaboration: sexy-slick and yet phony-wholesome-a creation in the spirit of a reversible cornflake that can also serve as a sequin. In the movie nothing of value has been eliminated, but nothing of interest has been added...
Backroom Gossip. Some of the most rewarding material are autobiographical reminiscences by writers who would not deign to confide to the slick-paper mass magazines. Thus, in effect, the little magazines form a kind of intellectual backroom where earnest highbrows can eaves drop on literary gossip. Seymour Krim (in Noble Savage) is scathingly honest about the pitfalls for a young writer desperate for integrity. Herbert Gold, in the same issue, takes a real cool look at death in the tinselly heat of Miami Beach...