Word: clicheed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feldman does not yet have Brooks' sure ability to touch and goofily transform each and every cliche base on which his chosen model rests. Around the middle of this picture, energy flags and a sort of desperate silliness begins to set in.
Hannah wants the chance but, as Martin shows, cannot have it. A brief affair with a charming but faithless acquaintance ends badly-and produces most of the novel's few patches of uncertain writing. Hannah's lover "begins to play on her body like a musician on an...
"Born again" has become such a cliche, applied to such a variety of political celebrities and rock stars, that it no longer has a very clear meaning. The Rev. Billy Graham's newest book, How to Be Born Again (Word; $6.95) undertakes to correct that state of affairs.
ONE REASON Cole Porter's musicals have remained so popular through the years is that none of his lyrics are predictable, and most of his situations provide some surprises. I Do, I Do by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, is unlikely to have the same success, largely because its authors...
Many a road to megabucks is paved with performance clauses, franchising agreements, copyrights, dramatic rights, first serial rights and other fine-print potholes. Thus prudent travelers have for years sought the guidance of an agent. Today the fast-talking cigar chomper of popular cliche has been replaced by a more...