Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stop some enterprising fund raisers from mounting their own campaigns. Said State Assemblyman Tyrone Brooks: "There are people moving throughout our city, soliciting money, goods and clothing under the pretense that they are trying to help the families of the murdered and missing children. These people are very slick and swift...
...before the mask has been cemented to one's face, when one's body contains the universe and one's possibilities are similarly boundless. He has gathered his former classmates and collaborators--as well as a talented group of undergraduates--together in the Agassiz Theatre to mount not a slick adventure but a philosophical meditation, with music and some dance, on an appealing, though troubling fairy tale. Mayer has clearly puzzled, and asked the right questions, and penetrated to the heart of the Aladdin legend...
...Frank Rich '71 (now chief New York Times drama critic), Halberstam, J. Anthony Lukas '55 (Times Pulitzer prize-winner), Mike Kinsley '72 (The New Republic), James Fallows '69 (The Atlantic Monthly) and numerous others, it is interesting to see what they wrote before "maturing" into the realm of slick publications and even slicker editors, when they wrote purely because they felt a need to, without contracts and glossy ads and people to feed...
...concerns the bejowled Jarvis and his trek from the lunatic fringe (Barry Goldwater disowned him as a fund-raiser in 1964 after Jarvis's "Businessmen for Goldwater" kept as "fees" $88,000 of the $115,000 it raised) to national celebrity. Within the context of the loony personalities, slick p.r. firms and confused politicians, Kuttner clears away the inevitable confusion to find that the revolt against property taxes was not only understandable, but justified. Taxes on middle class homeowners had grown ludicrously high, and, the owners, in their indignation, rose up to smite them...
...Newman dwells under the curse of the Pretty Man. Remember Robert Redford as the prison warden in Brubaker? Newman's even less credible as a cop; he has "gentleman jock" written on his face and if you passed him in Grand Central you'd think he was a slick exec commuting from his Manhattan office to his small mansion in Darien...