Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel the Lord's name burning in your throat?" asks Preacher George Hamilton of Salome, who has lost her speech in infancy and "grown up wild." Well, then, "Believe! Believe and say 'God!' Say it! Say it!" Salome, swept away by George's oil-slick, sensual emotionalism, says it-"God!"-again and again "in humility and gratitude and ecstasy." George runs a traveling caravan that swizzles bourbon with its brimstone, and Salome, or Angel Baby, as they call her, hooks up. Brother George was long ago spliced to Mercedes McCambridge, a twisted, Bible-quoting shrike...
...gambled on Rookies Jake Wood, 23, Steve Boros, 24, and Phil Regan, 24. All three bets have paid off. Regan, a fastballing righthander, has the lowest earned-run average among Tiger pitchers (2.12), has won four games and lost none so far this season. Second Baseman Wood is a slick fielder and a long-ball hitter who resembles the Chicago Cubs' Ernie Banks at the plate. Third...
Died. John Joseph (Jack) Barry, 73, slick-fielding shortstop who teamed with "Stuffy" Mclnnis at first, Eddie Collins at second and "Home Run" Baker at third to form the "$100,000 infield"* that sparked Connie Mack's old Philadelphia Athletics to American League pennants in 1910, _ 1911, 1913 and 1914, a weak (.243) hitter whose glove work was so superb that Mack called him "the greatest shortstop there ever was," named him to his "dream team" in 1948; of cancer-in Shrewsbury, Mass...
...prose pieces or plays, the best element in Jean Kerr's humor is that it often bridges traditionally alien settings, brings the muddy-carpeted world of school lunches and commuter trains into incon gruous collision with the slick panoplies of Manhattan. It works in both direc tions. Writing about a third-grade play at a Larchmont school, she notes certain uneven spots that "could have been cleaned up if they had taken the show to New Rochelle for a couple of weeks." Conversely, one of the biggest laughs in Mary, Mary comes when the movie actor prepares to take...
...manage to look fluid. The colors float into view as if they had been poured like cream into iced coffee and for a moment were suspended. They merge or resist one another, but they are never smeared. To some of Jenkins' abstractionist colleagues they seem a bit too slick, but no one denies their flowing grace...