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...feel something about the person being hunted. You've got to want him to escape or be captured. In this story, though, you don't know enough to care one way or the other. And that ending--nature's quiet disturbed by man's destructiveness. . ." "That may have been trite," admitted the March Hare, "but what about 'the sun firing the puddles by the side of the bridge'?" "That was very good," said Alice. "There are some good touches." "Indeed there are," said the March Hare, "and they keep trying...
What saves The Fourposter from what might have been its expected fate--critical curses of "static" and "trite"--is author Jan de Hartog's plausibly witty dialogue and believably gradual development of character. He has made things easier for his audience by casting his male lead in the part of an author of best selling if not memorable novels. Thus Mr. Cronyn can be humorously sarcastic without imposing on the audience's credulity; his lines are what one might expect from a clever, superficial writer. As his wife, Miss Tandy progresses from a blushing but eager bride to a mature...
Fight and will to win may seem trite intangibles, but they were the main factors behind the Crimson's triumph. The varsity's defense was poor, the shooting was way off, and the offensive rebounding was often absent. Nevertheless, the team won partly by outscoring the Jumbos, 25 to 21, from the foul line, and by managing to score at the crucial times...
With the same vigor and originality which marked Bernstein's score for On the Town, his music is a pleasant change from the trite insipidity of current show tunes. "Wrong Note Rag" piques the ear with delightful dissonance, and in "Pass That Football," a tribute to the well-paid college athlete, the eloquent stupidity of Bernstein's lumbering rhythm is as comic as the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. While the intricacy of some of his music challenges both the lyricist and the singer's enunciation, Bernstein can write simple and memorable melodies. Wonderful Town has at least...
Although many of author Peter Batinor's lines are trite, and he resolves nothing in an unsatisfying ending, his take off on Moliere, Shakespeare, and Chekov are quite amusing. The four colonels are allowed to try their amatory luck with Miss Palmer in the enchanted castle, and they are given a choice of any historical period as a setting. This allows Ustinov to inject his parodies...