Word: clichés
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...Temkin, offers the chance to encounter the full power of this artist. A joint project of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and London's Tate Modern, the show is Newman's first major retrospective since 1972 and runs at the Tate until Jan. 5, 2003. Newman lived the clich? of the struggling artist: born in New York in 1905, the son of Jewish-Polish immigrants, he put aside his artistic ambitions to labor in his father's clothing business. He sold up in 1937 and worked as an art teacher and writer until 1947, when he turned to painting full...
...failure to qualify for the second round had former team coach Carlos Bilardo, now a television commentator, sputtering into his microphone: "The impossible just happened." But as fans and experts calm down over the next few days, they may find some solace, and more sense, in the old clich?...
...bobcat of distinguished-merit parentage" before an elderly porter abruptly keels over in his room. That same night, Yoshimura ("Yoshi") Fukuzatsu, leader of Japan's most popular rock band, turns up dead in a run-down Tokyo love hotel, providing Adamson with ample opportunity to riff on every Japan clich? in the pop-culture canon...
...cover - we see Owen become more and more conflicted about the direction of his life. Meanwhile Katharine struggles with her long-distance boyfriend. With his subtle approach and care for character, Watson smartly avoids the pitfalls of turning SND into a broad "Ugly American" or "Kooky English" clich?. Instead it settles into a study of people's changing priorities...
...eclectics and the non-eclectics. I'd just love to envision The Strokes and The White Stripes, as well as the immense popularity of the old-school country "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack, as parts of a revolt against the self-conscious eclecticism that has become a rock clich?. That may be wishful thinking - "O Brother Where Art Thou" is most likely a second "Buena Vista Social Club," an anomaly everybody has to own rather than the harbinger of a trend - but popular music is due for a shake-up, and right now the best new ideas are coming...