Word: cliche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot is pat, the situations cliché, and the novel's real worth lies in the embroidery with which Author Spring (My Son, My Son) surrounds that crimson gown. The rich and reverent descriptions of the English scene are worth the price of admission, as are some of the characters-especially Chad's Dickensian Uncle Arthur, a glutton who grows auriculae and dotes on a skinny whippet...
Some of Humorist Daninos' humorous clichés may turn the clock back half a century. But American readers will find fun as well as truth in such extravaganzas as the major's sweeping portrait of the French nation...
...biting the hand that feeds them their gimlets and girls. Latest inmate of an Executive Suite to write an exposé of The Hucksters (TV division) is Al Morgan, a senior editor of NBC's Home show. His book is a shoddy production with characters that are walking clichés (lying down, in the case of the females). Its language sounds like Mickey Spillane trying to sound like Hemingway ("I belched. Loud and clear"). Nevertheless, the book has a minor and terrible fascination for what it tells about the TV business-in terms as tasteful but probably...
...Christian Science Monitor's Correspondent Joseph C. Harsch was flown in from Geneva, and breathlessly announced: "The biggest fact I came back with is this: people there are calm and confident." Others made it clear that the East was lined up against the West. To the unabashed clichés on audio were wedded equally tired clichés on video. The challenge of such a TV show is at once to be pictorial and handle ideas...
...superior mystery if it had been written by a newcomer, but from the author of Fog of Doubt it is disappointing. This time Author Brand blithely switches the point of view from chapter to chapter, for no apparent reason. The payoff to her mystery, furthermore, is a disastrously frayed cliché. But the Brand strength lies in a vivid setting and amusing characters. Her setting in this case-an independent kingdom on an island in the Mediterranean-is as believable and as funny as something invented by the early Evelyn Waugh. Her mixed bag of English people on a conducted...