Word: maudlinity
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...best new program on the air is East Side, West Side (CBS), which stars George C. Scott as a Manhattan social worker. Well written and excellently acted, the show is neither maudlin nor melodramatic, having disciplined dialogue and high plausibility. The first segment was about a prostitute who was also a devoted mother, a theme that could have been treated with cheap sensationalism, but was presented instead as a sensitive and unsentimental examination of moral ambivalences...
...that his arms get stretched to floor-length; that night in bed, when his sock-clad feet poke out of the bottom of the covers, a pair of hands reaches out alongside to give them a sleepy scratch. But Lewis as the alter-ego maniac Buddy Love is a maudlin letdown. Starlet Stevens best sums up the trouble: "Just being one person is more than enough for any human being to handle...
...Idea, Howard Mumford Jones reports that one historian has called the play American social comedy at its best. If true, this is an appalling indictment of native playwrights. The New York Idea is a feeble conception indeed, too "smart" to be clever, too-contrived to be good farce, too maudlin to be good comedy. It is also incredibly dated...
...cannot recognize his country in it, and that is exactly what I feel about the Yearbook. Their Harvard, thank God, is not mine. But perhaps in the next two weeks it will come to be everybody's, for the principle of yearbooks is that at the end a maudlin glue shuts everybody's eyes to memory; we may even be ready to adopt third-hand, third-rate interpretations of our experience...
Gigot. Jackie Gleason wallows and blubbers through this maudlin comedy set in Paris, and is so monumentally unwashed that audiences might wish some of the film's soapy sentiment had got behind the hero's ears...