Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cliché, All True. The view from Lauren Bacall Bogart Robards' high-ceilinged fourth-floor apartment in the Dakota, Manhattan's imposing fortress of old-world luxury, is the dense green foliage of Central Park. For Betty Bacall, as her friends call her, the view from the 41st year is just as vernal. Little Sam, her four-year-old son by Jason Robards, trots into the room with his nurse for some hugs and kisses before being taken for a row on the park pond. As he pauses at the door, his mother says, "Throw me a kiss...
...book, which is about the lynch-murder of a Negro boy in a small Southern town. At its best, Grubb's imagery is impressive and his prose is lyrical. But his uncontrolled bombast, his near-hysterical characters, and his determination to leave no grit unhominized often make the cliché-ridden novel read like a bad parody...
This wild West spoof is stacked with enough sagebrush clichés to make it high Campfire. Runty Dingus Magee, who goes around building a reputation as a desperado by taking credit for other people's crimes, is sometimes a delightful composite of all western bad men; at other times, he is merely a hapless, scheming little schnook. As a result, parts of the book are rollickingly funny parody, while other parts are slapstuck...
...Clichés in Clutches. To keep the customers interested, Robbins has tried every trick in his carpetbags, which means almost every bizarre sexual practice-plus once in a while a little kissing. Take all that away and the reader is left with an utterly baffling story about pseudopolitical intrigues in a Latin American republic where the peasants are revolting and their leaders disgusting. In the end, the book sinks of its own weight (2 Ibs. 2 oz.) and its excesses: four-letter words that are stuck everywhere like flies on flypaper and clichés that lie in clutches...
...read your fine Essay, "Why Cars Must-and Can-Be Made Safer" [April 1] on the day we won Senate passage of a historic tire safety bill. I congratulate you for a thorough analysis of this emotion-filled issue without repeating the cliché that a safe car would look like a Sherman tank. There is an awakening interest in this issue in both houses of Congress. A number of us will continue fighting for safe cars; we appreciate your help...