Word: cliches
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...attempt to give a topical horror story broad human appeal, the show at worst falls at times into cliché; it does not start with it. Distinguished merit West Side Story lacks; but its distinguishing merit, its putting choreography foremost, may prove a milestone in musical-drama history...
...Disneyland went into its fourth season with some hard-sell facts about the future. Instead of a birthday party, Walt Disney produced an hour-long trailer for Disneyland, the Mickey Mouse Club, and other Disney holdings including Zorro, a new film series full of the strangulated clichés of derring-do, and a six-part series called The Saga of Andy Burnett, featuring the standard heroes-errant of the frontier. Cartoon Impresario Disney was trundled about from one plug to another by his Mousketeers, who wound up the big sales convention with a tasteless routine...
...Center for International Affairs, a policy consultant to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, wartime Army intelligence special ist. Heart of Kissinger's analysis: Americans must drastically revise their hopes for Communist redemption, e.g., through disarmament, their fears of all-out war, and their mental clichés about the shape of the next war, if they expect to win out against a relentless, single-minded enemy...
...Rutherford) reminds him: "We haven't even paid the caterer for the party we gave last year." But even after he reaches a point of possible return, Actor Smith renounces his venal boss's offer of his old job and success, measured out in such tired clichés as mere money, prestige and social standing. Instead, he clings nobly to his massive martini shaker and the vague notion that he would rather be "some place down the ladder where he can use his energies naturally-not be afraid all the time-be himself." Despite an occasionally listless...
Hide-&-Seek. Serving up his own bold "antidote to long-entrenched clichés" about Victorian monstrosity, Author Maass says that the American architecture of the period was "distinguished by its pleasurable fancy and exuberant color." Some of the public buildings, e.g., Philadelphia's City Hall, were not in good taste, "but they had something more important-CHARACTER." As for the houses, they provided more comfort, light and air, and certainly had more vigor and imagination than the thin, nakedly simple, conformist boxes of today. "The broken 'picturesque' exterior made the most of the effect of sunlight...