Word: old-hat
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...Welk starts each number by chanting the old-hat beat, "And a-one, and a-two and a-three . . ." He jigs in time to the music and, at least once each show, waltzes carefully around the stage with his singer, Alice Lon, looking like a man who has just successfully completed a course at Arthur Murray's. Welk twinkles a good deal and the big event of each show is when Welk harnesses himself to his $5,000 Pancordion and plays a number against the program's backdrop of champagne bubbles...
...Coffin became president of Union Theological Seminary. "Uncle Harry," as his students called him, campaigned for the great liberal causes that are safe and almost old-hat today, but which then still suggested the revolutionary's bonnet: internationalism, equality among the races, unity among Protestant sects, a common spiritual front among Protestants, Jews and Roman Catholics. Sometimes he went to extremes (e.g., he favored euthanasia), but he served to show that religion was not reactionary or doctrinaire or dead...
These, then, are the general outlines of Globemanship, the building blocks for improvisation on your part. We would give you more advice on Europe except that it is so old-hat. Now, for a truly fascinating summer, we recommend Transylvania. Did some intriguing research there the last few months . . . Rhinebeck grant . . . strange tribe of marsupial women. Meet you over the punchbowl tomorrow and tell you all about...
Adapted by Director Norman Foster and Josefina Niggli from her 1945 novel, A Mexican Village, the picture was entirely photographed in authentic settings. Although it tries to affect a rakishly romantic tilt, Sombrero is mostly old-hat...
Invasion, U.S.A. (Albert Zugsmith-Robert Smith; Columbia) is a shoddy little shocker that combines a futuristic theme with old-hat moviemaking. A quintet of characters in a Manhattan bar hears the news that the U.S.S.R. is atom-bombing the United States. In the ensuing carnage, the quintet-a tractor manufacturer (Robert Bice), a rancher (Erik Blythe), a Congressman (Wade Crosby) a TV reporter (Gerald Mohr) and a beautiful blonde (Peggie Castle)-are killed...