Word: schmaltz
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...Town News Agency, and even in the more insulated confines of the Paperback Booksmith and the Coop, Valley is selling up to 30 copies a day--beating the pants of any other book in Harvard Square. According to one bookseller, "every secretary in Cambridge has slurped up the schmaltz...
...performance as a whole was dead; the woodwinds trod on the opening with an expressionless mezzo-forte, one passage of rich string chords was painfully out of tune, and Yannatos' overall interpretation was too straight. He seemed to have little interest in bringing out Tchaikovsky's natural schmaltz. With that sort of attitude, he probably shouldn't have performed Tchaikovsky...
...poorest of Sinclair Lewis' Midwestern novels, written in the late 1920s. Its businessman anti-hero is Lowell Schmaltz, who lives in Zenith, admires George Babbitt, and delivers endless monologues on Calvin Coolidge, cafeterias, motor trips, radio, etc. Coolidge sample: "Maybe he isn't what my daughter would call so 'Ritzy' ... he may not shoot off a lot of fireworks, but you know what he is? He's SAFE...
...written many tunes, but he has had nothing like Strangers going for him before. Still, he is no stranger to the bestseller parade. While most Americans have never heard of him as a personality (he never performs in public), they have bought a remarkable 10 million copies of his schmaltz-laced albums...
...Sometimes listening to the album made from a musical is better than sitting through the show-but not this time. Alan Jay Lerner (who wrote the lyrics for the unforgettable My Fair Lady) and Burton Lane (who composed Finian's Rainbow's fine music) miss the Viennese schmaltz of a Hammerstein or a Loewe that would give these songs warmth. Even the soft-sharp voice of Barbara Harris cannot make up for the lack of feeling...