Word: cliches
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...Virgin Spring. When the Hollywood offer came, says Von Sydow, "I thought with horror of Cecil B. DeMille and such things as Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments. But when I saw the script, I decided that the role of Jesus is absolutely not a religious clich...
Farce From lonesco. The anger in Albee's The American Dream is less restrained, although the one-hour work begins as a sort of surrealistic situation comedy about a prosperous bourgeois family. The dialogue is a wildly hilarious melange of clichés, inanities and redundancies. Vacuous, tyrannical Mommy harangues intimidated, impotent Daddy, and both berate semi-senile Grandma, whom they threaten to send off to a nursing home. Then in comes a clubwoman who doesn't know who she is or why she is there. Says Mommy: "Won't you sit down, would you like...
...floaters" ("I wouldn't kiss her with a ten-foot pole!") are a caution. His puns ("A fete worse than death") are outrageous. His hyperbole ("Carpets of so thick a nap that midgets would get lost in them and have to be rescued by dogs") is ingenious. His clichés ("The shot's not on the board, old dear") click with an exquisite remoteness in the modern ear, like ghostly billiard balls in country houses far away and long...
...Anabaptist (the former being a verse meter, as in "He flies through the air with the greatest of ease," and the latter being one who questions the efficacy of infant baptism). Those who say to this, "I couldn't care less," utter not only an AMPHIBRACH but a CLICHÉ, although they might be astonished to hear it, much as Molière's bourgeois gentil-homme was astounded to discover that all his life he had been speaking PROSE...
...further example of a cliché, the authors modestly offer: "Beckson and Ganz, busy as bees, are working like dogs to obtain filthy lucre." Whatever their motive in writing the book, they obviously do not believe in the cliché that one man's opinion on a work of art is as good as the next man's, and they hold that it is easier to judge a work if one commands a set of technical terms...