Word: cliches
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...Cliché. Democrat Bob Wagner's regime may be tired, but it is not about to roll over and play dead. At 55, running for his fourth four-year term, the mayor looks older, wearier and pouchier than ever-but he is recognized as a real master in the art of political survival. On the day that Lindsay announced his candidacy, Wagner found himself in the position of announcing a record city budget of $3.87 billion, involving $255 million of what Wagner lamely described as "borrow now, repay later" financing. That was embarrassing, but Wagner has come back strong...
Thus, in his opening effort, Lindsay seemed to be falling for that old and not necessarily true cliché about how New York-is-a-nice-place-to-visit-but-I-wouldn't-want-to-live-there. Fact is, more than 8,000,000 people do live there, and most are proud...
...accepting a new image of himself. Southerners still refuse to recognize that the prejudice that they foster in their own children hurts and warps not only the Negro but themselves. "There has been a change of action," says one Negro leader, "but not a change in heart." The ancient clichés still abound, including the notion that most Negroes really don't want equality. As Negro Author Louis E. Lomax points out ironically in Harper's: "I have yet to meet a white man whose cook believed in integration...
...gentle, anecdotal Tales of the Hasidim. Blessed with strikingly good photography and the witty commentary of Meyer Kupferman's musical score, the movie was hailed by enraptured critics at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival as a wildly satirical fable. Actually, Goldstein is merely the sort of cinematic cliché in which a young hero says yes to life by running from scene to scene at top speed. The technique is unquestionably serviceable, since many an art film forerunner has said no to life in precisely the same...
They are worried sick, as usual. To hasten an investigation, the Pentagon taps General Dana Andrews who arrives with an anxious look and a portfolio full of top-brass clichés. His comely daughter (Anne Francis), as Bug's resident bunny, does what she can to assist former U.S. Intelligence Officer George Maharis, whose ticklish assignment is to save the world. Before Maharis can track down the crazed millionaire behind the bacilli scare, Florida has been decimated by botulinus. Maharis endures sundry perils prior to a climactic wrestling match in a helicopter high above Los Angeles...