Word: cliched
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...limited, less sweeping in scope and slower to take effect than grandiose political programs, but they're often more effective. They underline the truth that France is a prosperous nation whose public services are often superb and whose private companies are frequently world-beaters. And they undermine the international cliché - a cliché the French themselves like to propagate - that France is impossible to change. Bruno Parent is one of the change agents. He's a top civil servant at the Finance Ministry and played a key role in bringing about the transformations there. The failed Sautter plan would...
...discovered on this trip that I did not know anything. Every single step was a surprise, every moment a paradox, every meeting an education. Europeans have a poor understanding of the U.S., not because they don't spend time here, but because of a smog of cliché and prejudice." Lévy tries to dispel that smog. Despite Americans' reputation for obesity, for instance, "I didn't find any more fat people here than in any French provincial town." And he wishes the U.S. well. The Vertigo in his title refers to the vertiginous identity crisis he sees Americans...
...tracked aids around the world, has equal billing with Martin Parr, England's foremost photographic satirist of class and consumerism. In his wicked portrait of a couple seated in a restaurant, the romance of married life seems to belong in the barely remembered past. The book nonetheless reinforces certain clichés about the profession. Golden must know that war photographers aren't all selflessly heroic, and he fails to mention the crushing might of the industry's superpowers, Getty Images and Corbis, which have gobbled up independent agencies and driven down the price that unaffiliated news photographers can earn...
...years ago, I visited Hiroshima and placed 1,000 paper cranes as an offering at the Peace Memorial. I realized that emotions of sorrow are universal. Once you stand in a place that has suffered as much as Hiroshima, you understand that world peace is not some cliché idea. Trisha Saha Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. I am the same age as Sakaru Takigawa, one of the men whose picture was included in your report on the survivors of Hiroshima. As a young Marine who would probably have played a small but active role in the scheduled invasion of Japan...
...taken leave of my senses," she says. A few months later, "I was in a sling, trying to type with my broken collarbone, on the phone with one of my editors, and we were laughing about it." At that point, she says, "I realized a midlife crisis is a cliché until you have...