Word: clicheed
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Heading a top international cast, Italian Baritone Renato Bruson was totally in harmony with the conductor. His Sir John was not the lecherous, cardboard heavyweight of operatic cliche but a man of complex emotions-however inappropriately addressed to two married ladies of Windsor After a somewhat tentative start, Bruson'...
"CHANCE," Fred Astaire told Ginger Rogers in The Gay Divorcee, is the tool's word for fate. "This cliche, usually restricted to tales of star crossed romances, sometimes merits grander application. Every once in a while, events in two completely different lives take on an uncanny similarity, parallels that could...
If it chastises the President's simplemindedness in foreign affairs the metaphor probably reflects a shared and abiding American faith in a world we can solve. That geometric precision may not be attuned to modern life. The cube cliche recalls the Gordian Knot, that ancient interlocking challenge whose solution held...
Throughout the play's five acts, performed without intermission, the note most often sounded is that of the homey cliche. Childhood ("Friday Night Dreams Come True") is two little girls on roller skates, singing and giggling over love-notes. Lonely young adulthood ("The Curse of an Aching Heart") is a...
Freeman brings freshness and wit to what is essentially a literary cliche: the world microcosm, the great passions of the large war replicated on a smaller scale, not among nations, but among a small group of individuals. In the beginning there is peace and a rustic scene of a small...