Word: cliches
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...lined with sable, a simple something buttoned up to the neck that unbuttons-if you just happen to feel like it-to reveal a splash of Schlumberger or Verdura in emeralds and diamonds. He was making the sleeveless sheath long before Jackie Kennedy made it a clich...
...Bond: "I've got enough sheets and pillows for two and other exciting things to do with being married." The old Bond would ordinarily give this kind of chatter some suavely short shrift. The new Bond revels in it. "Togetherness," he reflects sententiously. "What a curiously valid clich...
...instead is only sweaty, and its largo passages are flaccid with maundering soliloquies of the hero, a professor of literature who is awakening gummy-eyed from a dark night of the soul. Baker never writes a noun without leashing a seeing-eye adjective to it, never overlooks a cliché, never fails to labor an image ("The windshield wiper describing its captive arc back and forth, back and forth, like that descending knife in the story of the pit and the pendulum...
...Indoor Sport, by Jack Perry, concerns a domestic crisis in the lives of a tennis star (Shari Lewis) and a Pulitzer prizewinning foreign correspondent (Darren McGavin). McGavin's performance won praise, but the play itself is a long and somewhat clumsy cliché. Fayetteville, N.Y.; Falmouth, Mass.; Westport, Conn...
Blood for Blood. Though Messkirch is kind to the French and Russian war prisoners who work on his estate, he frankly considers them inferiors who rely on "temperament" instead of "temperance." He is contemptuous of the local party hack, who spouts Nazi clichés, but he has also a sneaking admiration for him: "In his round eyes, the eyes of a bird of prey, I saw the extinct race of ancient Rome, which had marched intrepidly over the whole expanse of the ancient world and conquered it." He admits his isolation from the mainstream of European life: "The most...