Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playwrights have riddled their cartoonist with his own pompous, high-sounding clichés and then left him bleeding on their verbal barbed wire. King of Hearts boasts some of the funniest dialogue of the season and some fast punches to all the more inflated regions of the human anatomy. It also boasts-thanks to Walter F. Kerr's direction and the acting of a superior cast-a lively production...
...minor weakness of King of Hearts is that its cracks come with a slightly too metallic and rat-tat-tat regularity. The more serious weakness is that what little story there is should additionally-in a play that makes mincemeat of clichés-use so many plot cliches itself. Where the wit is so true and the satire so topical, it seems a pity that such sharp pins should jab, in the end, little more than a pincushion...
...annual reports that came out last week, "record-breaking sales" was a welcome cliché. Though high taxes often kept profits from also breaking records, the 1953 net earnings of most firms reporting last week topped 1952 levels by handsome margins...
...each of these cinematic clichés appears to be placed in the very faintest of mocking quotation marks. Is it sex on the beach they want? Huston crams the frame so full of Gina fore and Jennifer aft that it looks like a wish-you-were-here postcard from Coney Island. The rifled dispatch case? When the four villains rummage through the Englishman's box, they find nothing but a letter to a minor colonial official and a hot water bottle−and are humiliatingly caught in the act to boot...
...Uncle Don was plagued for years by a persistent but apocryphal radio legend: once, having ended a program with a particularly fat string of clichés and commercials, he loosened his tie, curled his lip, and snarled: "There, I guess that'll hold the little bastards." Then he learned that he was still...