Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floozy strolling along a desert road; she refuses to be picked up by drivers of non-A.M.C. cars, but happily hops into a cool, comfortable Ambassador. Another commercial spoofs Detroit's penchant for depicting its cars in country-club surroundings. It shows elegantly coifed beauties swooping from swank settings into modest A.M.C. Rebels just as contentedly as if the cars were Continentals. Meanwhile, an off-camera voice proclaims: "Either we're charging too little for our cars or everyone else is charging too much...
...Elite" dancing, observed in country clubs and "two swank hotels," is marked by restraint and "the carefully planned masking of sexual demonstrations." "Swirling and side-stepping about the floor, the upper-class couples present a handsome contrast to lower-class couples who barely move during slower dances...
Trying too hard to be brittle, the dialogue often simply crumbles. Director Buzz Kulik nonetheless manages to give Warning Shot velocity by getting polished performances from his cast and by catching the spirit of stucco swank that passes for class in some down-at-heels sections of Los Angeles. As a faithful copy of Hollywood's old hard-boiled style of detective fiction, the film is not likely to engender any emotion except nostalgia. But if it has the look and the sound of an antique, it also has some of its value...
...October, the court took under consideration two cases involving booksellers from New York and Kentucky who had been convicted for selling such obscene publications as Lust Pool and High Heels. A third case concerned the right of Arkansas to suppress and destroy various girlie magazines, including Gent, Bachelor and Swank. Though it had taken the cases to consider other issues, the court finally reversed all three judgments on the ground that none of the publications was obscene...
...Pointe, Mich. (median income: $11,200), whites drove past his house screaming, "Nigger, get out!" When Massachusetts' Attorney General and G.O.P. Senatorial Candidate Edward Brooke tried recently to move to Milton, a wealthy suburb of Boston, he was peremptorily turned away; now he lives in Newton, an equally swank suburb...