Word: maudlinity
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...LOVE YOU, CALL COLLECT and DEAR MOM AND DAD are the work of Art Linkletter, who has for years dealt in mischievous humor. The record is a maudlin appeal to an erring daughter, which Linkletter recorded with his own daughter Diane last April. "Come back, come back," trembles Linkletter's voice. "I gotta do what's right for me," explains Diane. "We love you," says Art, with a choke in his voice. "Call collect." Originally the property of Word Incorporated, specialists in religious records, We Love You and Dad were not immediately released. But when Diane embarked...
Sigh for enzymes in the employ of detergents, sigh for the mad politicians and the maudlin rants sigh for the bands and the mascara on the suspicious eyes of young girls and sigh for knowledgeable people and sigh for the Congress sigh for the murdered sigh for the murderers sigh for the young lovers on the stand sigh for the comedians sigh for the poets sigh for the broken autos sigh for the sticks and clubs sigh for the rich sigh for the poor sigh for the desert and the ocean murmuring and empty sigh for an ancient sigh...
...heroine of The Sterile Cuckoo is a happy little dumpling of a college freshman called Pookie, a name that holds promises of maudlin disaster. The movie fulfills them. Pookie (Liza Minnelli) is what used to be called, back in the dim and distant fifties, a kook. She does swell things like move in with her straight-arrow boy friend (Wendell Burton) while he is studying for his finals, puts tape across her mouth-'cause she's promised not to talk to him-and communicates with him by holding up signs. College is some bucolic wonderland where...
...shoot it out with the local constabulary. They do not yet know that the Bolivian army, not a few policemen, are moving into position around their shelter. They blithely step outside into the volleys of hundreds of rifles. It makes for a macabre but funny death scene-not so maudlin as we were led to expect-and satirizes a similar scene from Bonnie and Clyde...
Detective Lew Archer has never been more moralistic or more maudlin. He may have his difficulties extracting the evidence, but he grows increasingly adept at producing facial contortions in his interlocutors. Under his gaze, faces "darken" or "work with thought"; eyes grow "misty with the quasi-maternal feelings of a procuress" or become "abstract, like a hawk...