Word: trite
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...shelves for sale maintain they couldn't care less what Paris decrees, and a continuity prevails here from season to season. Nevertheless, this year as usual there are subtle changes. A recent looking spree corroborated this. It also confirmed the suspicion that the Square stocks much of the same trite, conservative clothing available everywhere, (though at prices often higher than any other place...
...matzoh ball to swallow. Not that a score was ever written for the show, but one might forgive the vacuous book if the oi-so-stock Jewish jokes were textured frequently with a clever little song. After all, I Can Get It For You Wholesale--with an equally trite situation--overcame its basic obnoxiousness with show stoppers like "Miss Marmelstein." Enter Laughing, however, doesn't even...
...then Kazan is guilty of inconsistency. Although setting and dialogue are entirely unaffected, the events of Stavros' journey are hardly typical. In the end, he owes his equivocal success to his good looks, even though there are less contingent and less glamorous means of escaping Turkey. And occasionally a trite episode mars the credibility of the story. A fellow immigrant whom Stavros aids early in the picture, for instance, inevitably pops up to repay the favor later...
...despite all the dramatic difficulties, everyone in the cast seemed to be having a good time, and the audience got what it paid for: an evening of undergraduate fun in the old tradition. Musical director Joe Raposo banged his piano gayly, probably knowing the notes were trite but just what everyone wanted. The chorus kicked itself into exhaustion, and old grads chuckled themselves red in the face. You may, too, if you like this kind of foolishness...
...confess that I just can't make up my mind about Hobbing's story. At times it seems trite, pretensious, completely predictable, and lacking in subtlety. Other times it impresses me as a poignant tightly-constructed narrative. Is this moving or is it hackneyed...