Word: cliches
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From makeshift bikinis to Paris originals, the life of Christine Keeler was discussed in intimate detail last week, not only in the House of Commons but also in every British newspaper. For all the sentimental and psychological clichés about a pretty child from a broken home, what emerged was a Circean odyssey of a girl who always knew what she-and what men-wanted...
...Tiger and The Typists, by Murray Schisgal. The eupeptic pleasure with which Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson cavort through these two clever one-acters is highly contagious. The Tiger is the better play, as it hoists two engineers of nonconformist clichés on their own pretentious petard...
...millions. High point in Boyer's my-fair-laddie crash course: instruction by the master himself in the art of nibbling an arm ("The elbow is a very nice place, and from there it is all good"). Backgrounds of the Grande Corniche are getting to be a grand cliché in movies nowadays, and Ball's scenario has more twists and turns than the Grand Prix. But it also has its moments, among them a magnificently foppish performance by erstwhile Television Heavy Telly Savalas. As for Glenn Ford, he is in the driver's seat...
Sylvester's opposite number at Foggy Bottom made the same point in somewhat less colloquial terms. The whole problem has "been obscured in the great fog bank of clichés raised by some of the press,'' said Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Robert Manning. The State Department, he insisted, "is as wide open as Yankee Stadium." Could be, cracked Connecticut Democrat John Monagan, but "we have had a lot of trouble with the turnstiles...
...That extra something" is an advertising cliché that tirelessly makes the rounds of the earth. But for dozens of worldwide businesses, the phrase has a very real and highly profitable meaning. They are the companies that have made their reputations and their fortunes with secret formulas that give their products their peculiar identity and make them difficult or impossible to reproduce. Concentrated largely in the beverage and perfume fields, they range from West Germany's original 4711 cologne, still mixed by a closely guarded, 171-year-old formula, to France's Benedictine and Chartreuse liqueurs, first distilled...