Word: clich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite these ingredients of fictional disaster-plus a temptation to relate everything to "feminism"-A Fine Romance deserves a reading. Seton makes such charming, well-written excuses for her clichés: "There's an inherent plotlessness one has to contend with in the lives of civilized people, you see. Their marriages, divorces, are muted, cerebral. It puts a heavy burden on love affairs, do you see? They're the only credible climax left...
...that it is based on a novel by Co-Scenarist Duerrenmatt, who must cloud the simplest scenes with a thick layer of existential gas. Director Schell, who helped anesthetize the script, compounds that error by directing in a style that is virtually an anthology of antique art-movie clichés as practiced on the Continent...
Early this year BBC named Andrew Todd, a determined Scots purist, its television news editor, and he set out to stiffen the network's upper lip again. Todd scrapped the two-man format and banned clichés. He spotted Rippon reading bulletins on the network's late-night newscast and promoted her to prime time. Now she reigns as one of BBC's four newscasters, who appear alone in regular rotation...
Those who agree with the tiresome cliché that there is so much to accomplish on earth, hence why bother to go into space, were not moved by the occasion. Others took it as a metaphor for all kinds of human progress, which has received an undeservedly bad name. As Goddard wrote to H.G. Wells in 1932, " 'Aiming at the stars,' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning...
After the boom, slump. Millet had died in 1875, having greatly influenced Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat, blue-period Picasso and especially Vincent Van Gogh. Later, modernism lost interest in images of rural labor; they were derided as sentimental masscult. Millet sank from view, leaving behind one obdurate cliché: The Angelus, in its tacky frame, on every parlor wall...