Word: banally
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...arrangers transcribe the work for him which he describes as "kind of intermediate between ballad and country-western, with maybe a little calypso." Then, with cracking, lackluster tenor and a backing of RCA trumpets, or fiddle and humming voices, he croons away. For the most part, the ballads are banal and ridden with sentimentality ("Here's the mail that came today/ His silver wings and green beret; Come all ye young maidens, and hear my sad tale/ 'Bout a brave young trooper whose 'chute did fail"). If Viet Nam has produced a true war poet...
...account for the anticlimax, where sequences build to such banal exchanges as: (Bardot) "If my father saw me in clothes like these!" (Moreau) "Hurry up! We're going to the dance!" Then the beginnings of an exit, such as you get on high-school stages when there's no room in the wings. It's clumsy, and unlike Malle. Some of these scenes might seem less vacuous to French ears deaf to the banal dialogue spoken in English. I suspect that one scene, where some Negro officials sit around sipping tea, is built almost entirely of phrases from English textbooks...
...street" shooting. But these departures only point out the most important tendency in the New Wave movement: the willingness to experiment with any style, any technique, or any location. Godard uses his camera with the same abandon that characterized Breathless, and in his hands the conventional becomes anything but banal...
...dialogue is snug in aria or recited in this simple, banal story of young love interrupted by army draft, of a pregnancy left behind, and of a heroine's face-saving marriage to a wealthy older man. Mechanics sing "Did you check the carburetor?" An old lady sings "My varicose veins are much better, thanks...
...That TIME is middlebrow, trivial and superficial is well known to all thoughtful, serious men; but that it is ignorant and banal is a fact pushed to the fore in such pieces as the cliche-ridden double page on homosexuality. It takes TIME to make such spinsterlike judgments as the last sentence in the article...