Word: maudlinity
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...citizen who becomes a temporary constable to prevent riots during the country's first election. The plot is ingenious and very funny, but the great virtue of the piece lies in its marvelous prose. The narrator's naivete permits him to speak in wild, enthusiastic language, which sounds neither maudlin nor contrived: They crying no more blackman sweat to sweeten whiteman tea, no more for coolie to draw water to wash baccra foot. Sun come up to tell woman to tie her head and man to buckle his belt; to get ready to rule... The story is full...
...talked to his exwife, his daughter, his new fiancee and some old friends; he drank and wept, offered the drunk's typical, hopeless apologies, made glib cracks, and laughed with the sound of wind crossing a row of empty bottles. Call Me Back, a creditable but excessively maudlin first TV drama by Gagwriter Tony Webster, helped Art Carney add a superbly handled tour de force to his impressive list of acting credits...
Soon Rooney became maudlin, talked about his good marital fortunes and his wonderful children. His sentences might have been composed by Casey Stengel. Rooney: "But I again sound like tongue-in-cheek I seem somewhat as a smart aleck about something that's very so so wonderful." Paar: "I think you're loaded." Rooney: "I'm making a puzzling situation out of myself to you." Paar (to audience): "Don't stir him up or we're dead...
...part of the whole affair is the fact that Van Doren lied, and lied under oath. When he finally realized that he was caught in his lies, then, and then only, did he confess that he had made what he called a human mistake, and gave a maudlin explanation...
...properly stylized set. The color, the lighting, Irene Sharaff's costumes--all beautiful. Andre Previn (winner of last year's Academy Award for his work on Gigi) did the arrangements, which bring a new fullness to the Gershwin score. They are lush in the best Hollywood tradition, but never maudlin...