Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hokum accretes; Coop plays shady scenes with an oil-slick partner (Michael Wilding) and a blackmailer (Eric Portman). Every five minutes or so, Actress Kerr's lip trembles; Coop says, "We're going home and talk this thing through," and sure enough, they do. It is a fine, sentimental thing to watch Coop walk across a room, long arms held out from his hips, hands curving in toward invisible six-guns, and it is a useful time killer, while the plot boils on, to speculate about how a director might have made Coop a credible villain...
...Woodcock, "doesn't lead him to give away anything at the bargaining table." Because he helped pioneer G.M.'s labor relations in the '30s without benefit of a degree in law or psychology, Seaton likes to call himself a "barnyard bargainer." But he is a pretty slick country boy. A regular reader of dozens of union publications, he has an intimate understanding of the political realities of the labor movement, on occasion has stayed up all night to find a method of settling a wildcat strike without loss of face for the union...
...always avoid the errors he denounced. He could be sugary at times, slick at others. But in such paintings as The Family, he had the quiet power that comes only to one who has command of his art and still sees beyond. "The artist," he told his students, "must show people more-more than they already see, and he must show them with so much human sympathy and understanding that they will recognize it as if they themselves had seen the beauty and the glory...
...race for "slick" v. "celestial" space, there's no denying that the women are ahead-from "I like Ike" to "j'adore Jacqueline" in less than a year...
...pillared pool at the San Francisco Olympic Club was boiling with activity. Swimmers darted like dragonflies across its surface while they juggled a 9-in. inflated ball with aquatic agility. Spring-legged goalies exploded from the water to bat down the slick, wet ball whenever it was heaved at their 10-ft.-wide nets. But as the Olympic Club and the Lynwood Athletic Club of Downey, Calif., fought it out for the A.A.U. indoor water polo championship last week, spectators and referee alike were only partially interested in the fancy teamwork, the precise passing and the tireless swimming. They spent...