Word: cliches
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Such descriptions merely skim the surface of Bob and Ray's comedy. They are superior cliché kidders and satirists of the first order; they record things almost exactly as they are heard and seen every day-and then they take that one subtle, savage, farcical step over the brink into the inane...
...retired nurse who wakes one day to discover that her former boarder, Randy Rivers, has published a bestselling novel entitled Don't Look Now, Medusa. A tin-plated Spoon River Anthology, it has as its main character a small-town Midwestern landlady, like Emma herself, given to dislocated clichés and malapropisms...
...August, a nondescript homicide detective. Christopher George (Rat Patrol) is resurrected as The Immortal, a racing driver whose blood antibodies "make him immune to all diseases, including the aging process." Like The Fugitive before him, he is on the run-in this case doomed to spend the whole cliché-choked series fleeing an aging and baleful billionaire (David Brian) who wants to siphon off a few pints...
...sacred by millions-"That it snowed every Christmas down to fifteen years ago," for example, or "that oysters are a great aphrodisiac." The Credo badly needs updating. In 50 years, America has become a more divided land, and its favorite truisms are less firmly fixed. But a lot of cliché consensus can still be found. In the public interest, TIME herewith proposes a few articles of faith for a revised edition...
...neighbors and at each other. And all the time you yell, yell, yell. In every way, The People Next Door is an anachronism, a "naturalistic" play like those prevalent in the 1950s. It ran on TV two years ago and has now been transported to the screen with every cliché, every oversimplification, every gross dramatic blunder intact...