Word: rehashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...documentary flavor, however, lends too little novelty to the story's rehash of familiar fiction; and for all its self-righteous airs, the movie does not practice what it preaches. The point of the action seems to be that a smart, ambitious telephone repairman (Edmond O'Brien) can cut himself in on the $8 billion if he applies his knowledge to the gambling racket. By hook, crook and electronics, Hero O'Brien works himself up to a high living standard, 36 changes of clothes and a love affair with another big shot's blue-blooded wife...
...season. Their collaboration on "Miss Liberty," however, has produced only a better-than-average shown and thus is disappointing. None of Irving Berlin's tunes have the "whistle-appeal" that characterized the music from most of his earlier efforts. The show's lone sentimental number, "Homework," seems like a rehash of any of the drowsky tunes from the Thirties; its lyrics center around a strained similarity between the words "housework" and "homework." "Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk" is closer to Berlin standards but even it would be three deep on the hit list from the average Berlin musical...
...table-pounding, the battle of the files went on. The Democrats were not going to let McCarthy get a look at the files if they could help it; they demanded to hear his charges and his proof. Most of his accusations seemed to be a rehash of an old list of 108 names, dredged up in 1947 by the House Appropriations Committee. Since then, presumably, all had been rescreened by the State Deparment's security board (headed by Republican Conrad Snow) or the President's Loyalty Review Board (headed by Republican Seth Richardson...