Word: clicheed
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The secret is in the fast pace and uniformly good acting - a rarity on TV - rather than the sometimes tired scripts. The Jewish mother is now a walking cliche, but Bibi Osterwald makes palatable even the thousandth serving of chicken soup. Audra Lindley is just as good as Bridget'...
Lawrence of Arabia. David Lean's best film. If the music is cliche and some of the post-release cutting execrable, Peter O'Toole's performance is classic--one of the few convincing portrayals of a man of genius in film history. The story is a guilt-ridden updating of...
Lawrence of Arabia. David Lean's best film. If the music is cliche and some of the post-release cutting execrable, Peter O'Toole's performance is classic--one of the few convincing portrayals of a man of genius in film history. The story is a guilt-ridden updating of...
The recent Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Indianapolis brought out some fine literary ruffles and flourishes. Senator Birch Bayh gave a deft demonstration of cliche clustering with his characterization of "a rubber-stamp candidate chosen by the vested interests in a smoke-filled room." Senator Vance Hartke offered some introspective...
Thus What's Up Doc? It is Bogdanovich's homage to Hollywood, imitation screwball comedy that tries to distill forty years of American farce into ninety minutes. The acknowledged model is Hawks's Bringing Up Baby, but influence, allusion and satire run infinitely wider--from D.W. Griffith to Bugs Bunny...