Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guns of Navarone. Director Carl Foreman leaves out no gunpowder cliché in a World War II dash-and-basher, but tells his absurd tale with great skill, and Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn pull off their caper in rousing style...
...Gottlieb, who in 1958 took his doctorate in musicology at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, presenting a thesis consisting of previously unpublished 15th century cyclic masses. On and offstage, Gottlieb continually seems to be wondering if he really exists, drops great polysyllables and 18-carat clichés like in extenso and in medias res, which are woofed into Ciceronian syntax with words like "risible," "emolument," and "mentation." Then he turns around, describing the group's preference to stay apart when not working. "After the performance, it's Splitsville, Daddy...
Things end badly for both Glyn and the British forces, but that is hardly the point. What Novelist Caute shows expertly is a process of decline and fall coupled with an opposing, ominous rise that is by now the ruling cliché of half the world's troubles. The whites cannot even withdraw gracefully; they are paralyzed by native hatred that scarcely attempts to hide its emotions. And what the country faces when the British do leave is all too obvious. Kofi Bandaya, a Lumumba type, runs the People's Progressive Party with a lust for power that...
Apart from the celluloid clichés, there is a legitimate drama to the whole monstrous crime, and Uris captures some of it. Unfortunately, the scale of racial mass murder dwarfs the individual. The enormity of horror resembles a cataclysm of nature like an earthquake or a typhoon, and the inequity of the struggle smothers the tragic sense, which demands a more equal conflict in which the hero duels with himself, with another man or with God. Man's fate as it unfolds in Mila 18 contains the hound-after-fox emotions of the chase and the kill, sometimes...
After months of cavorting in Florida and New York with her divorced second husband, Joe DiMaggio, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe returned to Hollywood alone and, reaching for the oldest Sunset Boulevard cliché, told all and sundry that she and Joe were "just good friends." Then, displaying her enlarged vocabulary, she added: "Really...