Word: slicksters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artist Nichols, whose back-home colors and slickster drawing make him an annual hot favorite in the Christmas-card trade, cried: "When in Heaven's name may we who wish to see advertising take its just place among decent professions see these present low-minded sexologists replaced by high-minded psychologists? As one advertising artist once told me, the usual request is 'Make the breasts larger, the fanny bigger, and show more legs.' Other terms I would have to send by express or in code...
...rebellious talent that made history on Broadway, it reveals, all the same, that the talent still exists. No two plays in one season could superficially have more in common than Odets' Night Music and Elmer Rice's Manhattan idyl, Two on an Island. But where Rice, turned slickster, wears false face and speaks in falsetto, Odets still talks like Odets, can still be ardent, can still make a line ring out like a pistol shot, or a phrase cut like a knife to the bone. There are genuinely vivid and pulsing scenes in Night Music; and at least...
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