Word: cliches
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...dramatic reversal has taken place in Viet Nam: the drift of defeat has been halted by the overwhelming new U.S. buildup. This issue of TIME tells-as it has not been told anywhere else-the story of how this happened, and of events that have already destroyed many clichés about Viet Nam, including the one that Americans would not know how to fight "that kind...
Miraculously, from this carload of sentimental clichés Germi weaves a compassionate, richly detailed reminiscence of the commonplace tragedies that every generation endures. The best of the film is seen through the eyes of Andrea's ebullient small son Sandrino (Edoardo Nevola), a lad who must learn to live among fallen idols. The boy's tongue-tied despair is eloquent when he comes upon his married sister in a parked car arguing with a stranger. So is his quiet exultation when he accompanies his father to the wineshop where former friends awkwardly welcome him back...
...Culp) and his Oxford-educated Negro trainer (Bill Cosby). For all its stereotyped gunplay, the production has a style to which TV audiences should hope to become accustomed: lavish locations (Hong Kong in color for the first eight episodes), virtually choreographed direction, a swinging score, and a cant-and-cliché-free script, for which Culp doubled as author...
...Hupmobile, "Comedy is a science," he says. "The only way to learn a science is to study, and the only way to study is to look at what the old masters did and take from them. Race is an accumulation of dozens of the great comedy clich...
...railroads that spread from Ohio to the West Coast, established himself as the man who banked the robber barons, eventually scrambled to the top of a $100 million heap. Sarnoff also makes it clear, sometimes inadvertently, that Sage was a liar, a swindler, and a vivid illustration of that cliché about the desire for money being the root of all evil...