Word: cliches
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Copulation of Clichés. Director John G. Avildsen directs his actors in the same manner that a red light may be said to direct patrons. No matter. Pornography is customarily, in Nabokov's fine phrase, a copulation of clichés. Not here. Garfield takes this insanely, inanely plotted movie and lends each scene a Rabelaisian gusto and surprise. His movements are reminiscent of the hippopotamus in rutting season; his expressions are unique. Who else could register such dismay when he finds that he has been making love to a corpse? Who else could transmit such concern...
...dark rumors that the U.S. was dragooning Japan into 1) taking over the role of the Seventh Fleet and 2) becoming the biggest nuclear arsenal west of Los Alamos. Few Japanese were convinced by the denials. As Japan's biggest daily, Asahi Shimbun, put it in an editorial cliché: "Where there is smoke, there must be fire...
...searching for the source of Rose Kennedy's strength, Gail Cameron, a former LIFE reporter, was somewhat handicapped because the subject always remains aloof on grounds that she is preparing her own autobiography. Accordingly, the author sometimes has had to fall back on familiar anecdotes and cinematic clichés like "amazing," and "extraordinary." Still, she offers much previously unpublished material, and the book exposes as adulative blather most previous exploitations of the Kennedy women. The absorbing personage presented comes on as half pluperfect politician, half solitary saint...
...really need another stereotyped, cliché-ridden article about the "depiavity" of the suburbs? Your article perpetuates the myth of suburbia with its materialism, wife swapping, country clubs and veiled racism as subjects. Suburbanites are just like everyone else, just people, so why make the word suburb a dirty one, like capitalism or success, which are just as offensive...
Perhaps the most damning analysis of A New Leaf comes from none other than Elaine May herself-by way of her lawyer: "a cliché-ridden, banal story ... It will be a disaster if the film is released." The trouble, claims the Star-Director-Writer, is not the performances, direction or scenario. It is the studio. Paramount, she claims in a fat 14-point complaint, took her black comedy away from her and "advised me ... that the film released would be that as cut and edited by Fritz Steinkamp, a Hollywood editor, and Robert Evans, a vice president of Paramount...