Word: cliches
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...Blood Moon. Judged by critical response, Blood Moon was a bad bargain. "It does not send you out singing," complained the Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein. The Examiner's Alexander Fried was more biting. Blood Moon, said he, hovered "between an ambitious grand opera manner and light-opera clich...
Going for Willis is a politically clean school board, which is free to write its own budget without sabotage by the city council. Also going for him is his own Spartan selfdiscipline, which often keeps him working until 3 a.m. His speeches run to clichés; his critics label his community relations as "deplorable." But School Superintendent Willis makes good on his promises, and what he promises is to produce "more buildings, more classrooms, more attention to adult and vocational education, to the highly motivated and the handicapped-more of everything that's good...
...String Attached. Another factor is-in the popular cliché-the "population explosion." Published last week was a straightforward discussion of the subject: Catholic Viewpoint on Overpopulation, by one of the top authorities in the field, the Rev. Anthony Zimmerman, S.V.D. (Doubleday...
Stewart plays the heavy convincingly, but Director Ford is not satisfied with the melodrama that falls out of the over turned cliché, and he switches tracks again. For those still willing to string along, there is a fist fight somewhat less solemn than a Laurel and Hardy pie throwing, then a lynching in which no last-minute rescuer shows up. Director Ford's effort might be compared to the pastime of a successful gunfighter who, between important assassinations, lies on his back in a hotel room, drinks dark ale, and obliterates with his six-gun all the flies...
...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...