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...libation to failure. Day and night the staggering crowds of petes and winos, toads and loners mill about in a hundred sticks and arms and muskie stands (as the bars on Skid Row are variously described), and keep the dismal watches of the dark night of the soul. A trite and cheaply sensational subject for a movie? This film-without the pity that secretly insults, without the disgust that indirectly compliments -studies its subjects with honest human interest, tries to see what they see in their lives, tries to find what they find in the bottom of the bottle...
...York stage has once again honored the provinces with an offering from the Great White Way. Damn Yankees is the stuff that formulas are made of, with all the trite and true gimmicks, tall-girl routines, and repartee that entices visiting executives to drop half a hundred a ticket...
...today the 24 monthly and quarterly romance-mongers (top price: 25?) enjoy a steady circulation of more than 10 million. In the 38 years since the late Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden blazed the trail with True Story, the confession industry has thrived by sticking to the same trite-and-true formula: first-person stories of subjective sex that are more often fiction than fact, and read like supercharged soap operas...
...nominal plot is so trite as to be absurd: our hero is a professor who has flunked the football hero before the big game, and our problem is whether or not pressure will force him to recant his decision. Personal factors complicate this moral issue, however, and thus save the book from its anticipated collapse...
...professor, the football player, and in between, the football player's girl, create a novelty which counteracts the trite moral issue. The girl is especially startling, one of those rare fictional characters whom you have met somewhere before. The intensity which Nemerov generates around these people can well pull the reader through the book in a single sitting, if he overcomes the slow start...