Word: triteness
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Since the "Maltese Falcon" every Humphrey Bogart picture has been a bit of an anticlimax, in spite of the fact that they've all been better-than-average gangster movies. "The Big Shot" is no exception to this rule. Getting off to a bad start with rather a trite flash-back, it soon picks up speed in telling its non-too-original story of a gangster who tries to go straight...
...horror of "Dracula" grips its audience so firmly that a few minor slips or weaknesses don't matter much. It is good theatre any time and has just the proper flavor for summer fare. Some of the lines may sound trite and some simply absurd, but the laughter disappears after a few attempts at blood-sucking. If you can forget sensitive, psychological drama for a while, you'll be sitting on the edge of your seat most of the evening. And you may not feel like taking the shortest route home through the darkened Yard after two and a half...
...years later the Sixth Symphony brought him further official plaudits. Outside Russia, music lovers were more critical. Shostakovich's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies combined spontaneous gusto, originality and nobility, with a curious taste for trite themes and musical horseplay, as if the composer were constantly fighting down an impulse to throw musical custard pies...
...makes mincemeat out of them, and it takes Pearl Harbor at the end of the picture to interest him in the glories of the life of a Marine. What should have been the thriller of the year develops into a rehash of Frank Merriwell, tame enough for Grandma, too trite for anyone else...
...Remarkable Andrew" is far from trite, but equally dull. Its rather weird plot concerns the plight of Andrew Long, a strait-laced city employee who is framed by crooked politicians. With the unseen help of the ghost of his namesake Andy Jackson (not to mention the spirits of Washington, Marshall, Jefferson, Franklin, etc.) Andrew Long finally manages to extricate himself. But for a while in the picture even his friends wonder a bit when they observe him talking to people they can't see. Meanwhile the audience is just as baffled by the superfluity of ghosts whose figures they...