Word: clicheed
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Even if it were possible to disregard the ineffable cliche quality of Inge's screenplay, it would not be possible to overlook Natalie Wood's abysmal acting. If Sandra Dee stands at the nadir of movie acting, then Miss Wood sits on her shoulders. Her only commendable scenes are those...
A more subtle objection to the disclaimer is the invidious light it casts on the academic community. That teachers and students should be singled out from all other Americans as potential traitors does not speak well for the future--a future, it should be added, when these same teachers and...
Not only is Miss Evans' subject impossibly hackneyed, but her prose style inclines toward marathon sentences that restate the same southern cliche again and again. The heroine of the story sums it up quite well: "Words, ...so many words, too many words to breathe easily."
The Guns of Navarone. Director Carl Foreman leaves out no gunpowder cliche in a World War II dash-and-basher, but tells his absurd tale with great skill; and Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn pull off their caper in rousing style.
The little nothing is partly the stepchild of modern transportation-bulkier, more elaborate dresses severely inhibit a woman getting in or out of cramped taxis and automobiles. But technology is not the whole story. As popularized by Jackie Kennedy, the little nothing, its partisans explain, also aims for the look...