Word: clicheed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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I wish Angell was like Wallace Stevens, an insurance man doubling as a psychotic baseball freak. His writing, since his collection The Summer Game was published, has increasingly gone beyond the usual vanishing-sport, vanishing-values cliche and into an allusive yet serious search for what baseball did, does and...
Whiteness is destructive, repressive and womanish; blackness is vital and masculine: this is the overriding theme of Ray Aranha's My Sister, My Sister. The play develops this theme, an insidious cliche to begin with, at excessive, repetitive length, finally vitiating the considerable talents of the cast.
The old cliche about country music is that if you listen to it long enough, your story will come up on the jukebox. This album, by telling Hank Williams, Jr.'s story in very real and poignant terms, marks the emergence of a man who could become a major force...
At long last, some really fine student ballet dancers at Harvard have come out of the studio into the limelight. Onstage at the Ex this weekend, Joanne Hochberg, Lois Rosenberg and Francine Figie prove, in three short and beautifully executed pieces, that ballet is no drawing-room accomplishment. This pared...
On the other hand--and this is a far larger concern--what can be accomplished by misleading the media? By now it seems cliche merely to point to certain human realities of the media, including their accessibility to those who would mislead them. Simply to demonstrate the gullability of any...