Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-modulated tones of its newly elected president, Detroit Trucking Tycoon Walter F. Carey, 58. Unlike his predecessor, Delaware Banker Edwin P. Neilan, who cried out against federal spending and call Congressmen "bagmen," Carey aims "to make the idea of a great business-government partnership less a cliché and more a productive reality" during his one-year term. Carey, who built a $20 million business fiefdom by pioneering the trucking of new cars from plants to dealers and now has interests in a maze of trucking companies, is a political conservative. He spoke in friendly terms of the Johnson...
...local grotesques abound. But although Fiddlersburg has been condemned to death, the sentence does not (Samuel Johnson to the contrary) result in wonderfully concentrating its collective mind. On the contrary, an aeolian cavern of Southern garrulity is opened up and the air is thick with all the Confederate clichés about honor, guilt, familial dooms and expiations, the Civil War and slavery. There is much speculation on the quintessential nature of Southernness. "Lonesomeness" is one explanation. "The lie that is the truth of the self" is another more portentous reflection. Whatever it is, those who feel it most...
Nothing in this newborn star quite conforms to the clichés of stardom. Her profile might have come from an ancient bas-relief found in the valley of the Nile, but her tongue is asphalt-coated in the speech patterns of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Her voice is too nasal to be winningly melodic, but she uses it like a jazz instrument, improvising a jumping rhetoric of sound. She can bring a song phrase to a growling halt, or let it drift lyrically like a ribbon of smoke. Her lyrics seem not to have been learned...
...jart, 37, has a well-burnished reputation as an enfant terrible director of theater, ballet and opera. His talent for welding all three together into erotic iconoclastic visions of such works as The Merry Widow and The Tales of Hoffmann has made his name a café cliché: "style Béjart" means art that is mercilessly frank...
People are consumer products to Sammy Glick, and when he has consumed enough-script writers, girl friends, studio chiefs-he reaches the projection room at the top of World Wide Studio. At musical's end, he is faced with the topman cliché: "You're all alone, Sammy Glick." As Sammy, Steve Lawrence moves with the wary savage grace of a jungle cat, and when he claws, he claws. Bernice Massi, the banker's daughter Sammy marries, matches him in velvety ferocity. In a subplot romance, Robert Alda and Sally Ann Howes seem to be going through...