Word: clicheed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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IN ORDER to pull this off without sensationalism or cliche, Rhodes's style has to be cinematically vivid without being florid. He has to be personal enough to carry conviction, familiar enough to take us with him. Ambitious as he is, amazingly, he succeeds. It is rather frightening to realize...
Television has explored the American Dream and the American family in one incarnation or another since the early fifties. For the most part television producers have restricted their perspectives to the outlook of the situation comedy where bumbling parents and sophisticated kids wade through one suburban cliche after another or...
On his years in espionage, Hunt reflects: "You see, our Government trains people like myself to do these things and do them successfully. It becomes a way of life for a person like me." Of ten he traveled under assumed names, says Hunt, "to preserve plausible denial, " the phrase rolling...
Viet Nam is the great destroyer of hope. In the years when the conflict was mostly military, "the light at the end of the tunnel" became a ghastly cliche of hope aroused and dashed over and over again. Now that the conflict is largely diplomatic, is the light at the...
Skiing also offers membership in a cozy subculture that nonskiers sometimes have difficulty understanding. Initiates speak their own language, a conglomeration of English, German, French and jargon. A rather hyperbolic example-"I was wedeling this head-wall loaded with bathtubs and decided to make a gelandy over a tree stump...