Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Golden Noose. Hoisted to these heights by the noose that hung Tom Dooley-the ballad was sleeping in an album they cut early in 1958-the Kingston Trio have added to the burgeoning U.S. folk music boom (see Music) a slick combination of near-perfect close harmony and light blue humor. To help their predominantly collegiate and post-collegiate audiences identify with them, the three do their best to festoon themselves in Ivy, wear button-down shirts, even chose the name Kingston because it had a ring of Princeton about it as well as a suggestion of calypso. Sporting close...
Divorced. François Sagan (born Quoirez), 25, France's slick novelist of disillusioned sex; and Publishing Executive Guy Schoeller, 44; after two years of marriage, no children; in Paris...
...submitted) were practitioners of non-representational art. There is also no denying that the general public prefers representational art (it was no accident that, in the balloting for the Popular Prize, 40 percent of the votes went for one representational work, Robert Bliss' "Balanced Figure," a skillful if too slick view in shades of gray of a kneeling man on a tight-rope as seen from above...
Sister Lorenzina has practical proof for her point: listed on the masthead by her given name of Olga Guidetti, she is the editor of a not-quite-slick-paper magazine named Cosi (Thus), which is published and staffed by the Daughters of St. Paul and is a successful weekly entry in the fiercely competitive Italian field of popular magazines for women...
...slick, self-confident Armenian, Mikoyan has shown less public reverence for Khrushchev than any other second-rank Russian leader. On one occasion during Khrushchev's 1955 visit with Marshal Tito, his Yugoslav hosts watched in open-mouthed disbelief as the bull-like Nikita and the wiry Anastas whiled away a few idle minutes scuffling about in a mock wrestling match. For all his flipness toward the boss, Mikoyan has always voted with Khrushchev in Kremlin disputes, has been one of the strongest advocates inside Russia's ruling Presidium of Khrushchev's policy of easier relations with...