Word: clicheed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fairway pundits have been trying to explain what makes Tom Weiskopf tick ever since he joined the professional golf tour in 1964. It became a clubhouse cliche that the rangy (6 ft. 3 in.) blond with the sweet swing had all the moves but none of the grit, cool or...
There is, for instance, a whole group of bullfighters whose shapes, except for a brusque vitality of placement that was always Picasso's hallmark and never quite left his fist, might almost have been produced by David Stein, Elmyr de Hory, or some other moderately gifted faker. Every artist...
Unfortunately, however, John Hopkins' script almost immediately starts dropping broad hints on this matter too. Flash cuts and dialogue indicate Connery cannot purge his mind of the dirty pictures left there by previous investigations of violent crimes. They are pulling him toward a psychopathy as profound as any he...
"Kodachrome" is Simon's fling at whimsy, and "American Tune" his cliche. His use of The Onward Brass Band on "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" is a piece of self-indulgent authenticity which is barely necessary. There is a beautifully sung lullaby, "St. Judy's Comet," not really a...
BUT THIS is bickering, because this book stands a good chance of leaving the umpteen other books that this campaign will spew forth holding their hats. There are, of course, probably valid objections to Thompson's tampering with the truth with such unabashed glee, but his metaphysical point of view...