Word: clicheed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the suspense in Mandingo is generated by the unconscionable amount of time it requires for the blonde mistress of Falconhurst to invite into her bed the handsome black slave (Ken Norton) her husband purchased to improve the breeding stock down in the quarters. Until this moment we cannot...
On his way to the stage on Oscar night, it crossed Art's mind to say in his acceptance speech: "You're looking at an actor whose price has just doubled." He did not say it, but it is true. Offers are beginning to come in. There may...
You have to be there to sense the mania connected with the Oscars. Television has cooled us off so much that we forget that there is something going on, live when we watch the Awards. Three thousand people are sitting on tacks, and it's not because they're worried...
Texas has too long existed in the vacuum of superficial generalities accepted by both outsiders and natives. The diversity that gives Texas its special character is so obvious that it has become a cliche, and has never attracted more than superficial study, as in John Bainbridge's The Super Americans...
After a while prolific artists cannibalize their own work: You 're a Big Girl Now is a lesser Just Like a Woman. From a working poet, a line like "They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn" is a dismal cliche.