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It's unlikely--things being what they are--but the MVP should really go to Earl Weaver, manager of the Baltimore Orioles. Singleton said that without Weaver the Orioles would be playing .500 ball. The biggest cliche of the 1979 season is that the Orioles are a good team having...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Fenway Finale: Finishing With a Whimper | 10/3/1979 | See Source »

Rather, Pourquoi Pas! explores with intelligence and subtlety the vagaries of human desire. With neither snickers nor excessive sentiment Serreau unfolds the relationship between two men and a woman. The homosexual bond between Louis and Fernand is accorded the same frankness and sensitivity as the heterosexual union with Alexa. The...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Short Circuits in the Social Order | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

I particularly like the part about Nieman fellow Frank Van Riper being the "big gun" with his "pair of towering triples." Never has the mantle of sports cliche fit an individual better. My mother thanks you. Yours for bigger and better journalism, Frank [Big Gun] Van Riper

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Don Zimmer | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Every time the narrative picks up steam, though, Halberstam blows the pipes with hyperbolic cliche. In the space of four pages about Henry Luce, for example, Halberstam calls him "large on the landscape," "brilliant," "incredible," "legendary," "shrewd," "muscular," "powerfully influential," and describes both Luce and Life magazine as "dazzling" within...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Tower of Babel | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

Basically, Halberstam has provided a thousand politicians and media junkies with Rolodex-files-full of inside stories and one-liners to try out on the chicken-and-green-beans circuit. The Powers That Be piles detail after detail, quickie quote on top of one-liner, superlative onto cliche, in an...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Tower of Babel | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

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