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On President Roosevelt's desk this week were at least five different drafts of an executive order setting up a U.S. version of Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare. In Washington, where the phrase is already a cliche, three names were mentioned for the Minister's job...
So sharply does Citizen Kane veer from cinema cliche, it hardly seems like a movie. There are some extraordinary technical novelties through which Welles and wiry, experienced little Photographer Gregg Toland have given the camera a new elo quence - for example, the "stolen" newsreels, the aged and streaked documentary shots...
One of the most frequent comments that one hears concerning the present war is the cliche that 'while we must give England all possible help short of war, if we permit ourselves to be drawn in we shall sacrifice forever the very democracy for which we shall be fighting.' By...
Curiously enough, the bad poets and rank amateurs come off best. Soaked in traditional and obligatory sentiment, drowned in cliche, they nevertheless have an innocence in which, as in a wavy mirror, genuine emotions are somehow reflected. Eugene Field's Little Boy Blue and My Mother's Faith...