Word: cliche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart of the role. This is particularly true in the Nile Scene, where Aïda tussles with her passion for Radames and her love of country. It is a surefire conflict that, after more than a century and countless productions, can easily turn into a theatrical and musical cliché. Von Karajan and his longtime protegee Freni make...
...most glaring and obvious fact that appears from the data collected from our celestial neighbors is that none are even remotely similar to earth. The cliché, "There's no place like home," rings true. Whatever else space exploration may provide, it will surely not be the new "suburb" into which to move when the neighborhood goes...
...Aussie with a quick wit. Laura doesn't fit: she is too thin and gawky, too smart and eager. In an attempt to see Laura's world through her eyes, Director Beresford turns the other girls into vaudeville minxes and betrays a weakness for the ingratiating visual cliché. But the film sparks to life when Laura falls in with-and into heroine-worshiping love with-Evelyn (Hilary Ryan), a beautiful, dark-eyed senior classwoman who is everything Laura hopes to become. In one lovely scene, Evelyn beckons the girl to join her in bed. They pull...
...hour accompanied by aides. The meeting proved to be informal and spontaneous. Hua impressed the Americans as witty and candid. At one point, while his interpreter was droning through a pompous English translation of the Chinese official line, the Premier grinned broadly at Carter. Later, Hua used an American cliché to put down Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who has accepted $1.6 billion in Soviet aid in exchange for Indian recognition of the Soviet-backed puppet regime in Cambodia. Mrs. Gandhi, said Hua, had decided to "take the money...
Even if his tale were something more than a pastiche of romance movie clichés-offering, incidentally, targets ranging from Saturday Night Fever to From Here to Eternity-it is hard to imagine anyone paying him much attention. There is so much more unplanned in-flight entertainment going on elsewhere. Up in the cockpit, a child is criticizing Jabbar for not hustling on defense. The boy himself is being slyly propositioned by marvelously straight-faced Pilot Graves. "Have you ever seen a grownup man naked?" he inquires in the same tone he might use to describe the flight plan...