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The show is a string of contemporary vignettes, each one based on one of Aesop's fables. Some of the scenes, like "Tortoise and Hare," are rousing song and dance routines: all feature sharp, wise-cracking humor. Yet, although most of the scenes are winning in themselves, the show overall...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: More Sugar Needed | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

But there are events of public record which must be publicized if only to jolt people from apathy. It has become almost a cliche to say that the American Dream is a myth that clouds the 400-year nightmare this country has been for Blacks. Those curious about the origins...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Remembering History | 3/3/1983 | See Source »

THE PART OF TEXAS in which these children live, work play and write is not the stark and barren flatland of cliche. Instead the area, generally termed the "Hill Country", is one of the more beautiful parts of Texas packed with culture and "warm material" for the imagination to feed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speaking From the Heart | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

In "Desperate but not Serious," the Ants reduce the Moody Blues to a cliche by making lust sinister. It almost works, but a happy-go-lucky bass line ruins the ceric vocals. In "Here Comes the Grump," the group turns self-reflective (ah, the traumas of being Number One) and...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Hardcore Curriculum | 2/24/1983 | See Source »

As a friend once said, Isn't it horrible when you find out that everything is a cliche--that you are a cliche?

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Hardcore Curriculum | 2/24/1983 | See Source »

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