Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Item: Jean Anouilh, with his third play to be running on the boulevards this year, is the kind of illusionist who pretends to show the audience just how it's done. In Don't Wake Madame, he turns some show-business clichés upside down with his accustomed skill, but only to shake out the last sticky-sweet drops of sentimentality...
...approach but rather a superficial paste job. To begin with, you lifted a casethe one about Mrs. Louisa Alvarofrom my book The Negligent Doctor without realizing that although the story was true enough, her name was fictitious. But most important, the article recites all the clichés advanced by the American Medical Association without taking the trouble to check them...
...concentrated in the service trades and government jobs, where layoffs have been fewer than in manufacturing. Another is that there are not many blacks in the depressed aerospace industry. In addition, black factory workers by now have built up some seniority, so that they no longer fit the cliché of "last hired, first fired...
Such descriptions merely skim the surface of Bob and Ray's comedy. They are superior cliché kidders and satirists of the first order; they record things almost exactly as they are heard and seen every day-and then they take that one subtle, savage, farcical step over the brink into the inane...
...retired nurse who wakes one day to discover that her former boarder, Randy Rivers, has published a bestselling novel entitled Don't Look Now, Medusa. A tin-plated Spoon River Anthology, it has as its main character a small-town Midwestern landlady, like Emma herself, given to dislocated clichés and malapropisms...