Word: clicheed
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Hitler has begun to shout in beer gardens. The book has many moments of Rabelaisian vulgarity, including a hilarious bordello scene, but they seem deliberately injected for shock value. As for the symbolism and the irony (though Remarque says no symbolism was intended), they could scarcely be more obvious-the...
"Wait till you see Playhouse go" matronly Party Giver Perle Mesta was telling everybody in Hollywood last week. "You'll feel sorry for me." Perle was right, but for the wrong reasons. She had hoped to de-emphasize her reputation as a gay social lioness. Instead, in her first...
In a cliche, Harvard had the individual stars but not the depth required to go all the way.
In the big world of Texas, where oil millionaires are a breed of cliche, and in the great world of oil commerce beyond,
There was once a Chicago city editor who assembled his reporters and decreed: "What this newspaper needs is some new cliches." The same man, or someone just like him, is now roving through television as vice president in charge of promoting annual, trumped-up presentations of Charles Dickens' A...