Word: cliched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vidal is also capable of delivering compact and provocative insight. On cliché analogies between the Roman Empire and the United States, for example: "I should not look to Rome for comparison but rather to the Most Serene Venetian Republic, a pedestrian state devoted to wealth, comfort, trade and keeping the peace, especially after inheriting the wreck of the Byzantine Empire, as we have inherited the wreck of the British Empire...
...escape prejudice and persecution in Soviet Russia, a small group of Jews plots to hijack an airliner and fly to freedom. It is a story of particular contemporary urgency. Director Golan displays the ability to separate it from all its political complexities and moral imperatives, and reduce it to clichés that everyone will understand...
...Barthelme was out to turn the boring, the banal and the shiny waste of the world's largest consumer society into art with a small a-the smaller the better. "Fragments are the only forms I trust," he wrote, and his plotless arrangements of culture-junk, blown-up clichés and absurd juxtapositions of daily monotonies showered down like confetti...
Among the truths that keep getting buried under the icing of cliché is one about frustration and how it leads to violence. In a bestselling study, Love and Will (1969) Psychiatrist Rollo May began his "search for the sources of violence." That phrase is now the subtitle of his new book Power and Innocence (Norton; $7.95). Both works are closely related; an understanding of one is a help in reading the other...
Everything is gray: the landscape, the light, the morality. There are no heroes, only villains and victims. The splendid myth of the West originated in blood and mud, both of which are in abundant evidence here, along with every other cliché of what has come to be called the antiwestern. The action takes place mostly on the main street of Coffeyville, Kans., which looks like a bayou. Whoever is not shot there is pretty sure to catch it in the saloon, which, like every other set in the picture, has been designed and dressed to look determinedly shabby...