Word: corniest
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...muddleheaded talk and stagy pretentiousness. Its final, most brassy explosion: an enormous, foreshortened view of Gary Cooper-presumably a hulking symbol of rugged individualism -straddling the topmost scaffolding of his new skyscraper. Apparently aimed at Communist and other critics of the American way, Fountainhead will provide some of the corniest grist for Soviet propaganda mills that Hollywood has produced in a long time...
...most startling-and corniest-stunt came last. With the studio in pitch darkness, the television screen showed a radio announcer making stagy passes at one of the girls. From a balcony, an infrared projector was shooting "black light" on the stage; the all-seeing image orthicon (sensitive to infra red) was spying on the couple...
Whether you laugh at any of it depends on what kind of comedy you like. Olsen and Johnson present the corniest and slapstickiest line of gage since the pie-throwing twenties...
This gruesome assortment of musicians has been using radio the last four months to lead a new trend in U.S. music. It is a deliberate trend back to the corniest ragtime possible. The City Slickers under Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones have made their greatest hit with a barnyard version of the Bronx-cheerful Der Führer's Face. Jones's name for it: "A very violent comic type of music...
...Moonlight in Hawaii" is nobody's picture--not the producer's, not the director's, not the actor's, not the gag-writers'; nobody's, not even the garbage man's. It's one of the cheapest, slowest, corniest, dullest pictures ever to come out of Hollywood. That's going...