Word: clicheed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It is hard to write the life story of a hero. It is even harder if you yourself are the hero. South Africa's renowned heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard did not entirely surmount this dilemma. In fact, it seems at times as if he or his collaborator, a...
Raunchy Liturgy. For years, Godard's films have been essentially free-association essays. Recently he has become less interested in culture than in politics. Films like Le Gai Savoir, for example, are basically director's monologues, with actors as mouthpieces and the audience made mute witness to sometimes...
They also have a certain tendency to cliche shown most clearly in their chapters on SDS. Sometimes they even develop a love for their own phrase and words. For example, they tell us in an early passage about university malcontents that:
The immorality of the Vietnamese war has become a cliche. Even those opposed to the war no longer go back to the screaming bloody concrete facts of the conflict. How can we emotionally respond to a seemingly endless series of burned villages, burned babies, mass slayings of civilians? We become...
At first the title cavorts in the mind, a comical inversion of the cliche. By the end of D. Keith Mano's new novel, though, the resonances and realities of the words have lost all irony. They have become literal, horrifying statement.