Word: cliched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farce From lonesco. The anger in Albee's The American Dream is less restrained, although the one-hour work begins as a sort of surrealistic situation comedy about a prosperous bourgeois family. The dialogue is a wildly hilarious melange of clichés, inanities and redundancies. Vacuous, tyrannical Mommy harangues intimidated, impotent Daddy, and both berate semi-senile Grandma, whom they threaten to send off to a nursing home. Then in comes a clubwoman who doesn't know who she is or why she is there. Says Mommy: "Won't you sit down, would you like...
...Fats. Keys's findings, though far from complete, are likely to smash many an eating cliché. Vitamins, eggs and milk begin to look like foods to hold down on (though mothers' milk is still the ticket). Readings of the number of milligrams of cholesterol in the blood, which seem to have value in predicting heart attacks, are becoming as routine as the electrocardiogram, which can show that the heart has suffered a symptomatic attack. Already many an American knows his count, and rejoices or worries depending on whether it is nearer 180 (safe) or 250 (dangerous...
Irma La Douce. Transcending the ancient cliché of the golden-hearted whore, dynamic Elizabeth Seal endows a jaunty, harmless French musical with a nice tingle of iniquity and even a certain mixture of sweetness and bite...
...first 500 novels devoted to this notion, the unimpeachable moral that a man may lose his soul while making money proved reasonably arresting, but by now, the theme has become an overpowering bore and need no longer be written; it can be assembled from the fictioneer's cliché kit. The recurrence of the theme may prove, as some claim, a deep uneasiness in American materialist society; or it may merely prove the uneasiness (or an eye on an easy market) among American writers. The latest, 604-page redundancy by Sloan (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) Wilson...
...Hollywood the cameras picked up Republican Cinemactor Cesar Romero, a greying panther stalking among the dejected at Nixon headquarters. In a poignant cliché from Washington, ABC showed rows of empty chairs at Republican National Headquarters. Republican National Committee Chairman Thruston B. Morton made appearances on both NBC and CBS, recklessly and gloriously told the U.S. at midnight that the Republicans really had it in the Western...