Word: clicheed
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That old cliche about winning the war but losing the battle was reversed again for the women's track team, as they fell to a strong Springfield College team, 75-52, yesterday at Harvard Stadium despite setting nine new University records.
Much has changed since Elizabeth Hardwick wrote those words nearly a generation ago. "Feminine" has toughened to "feminism." "Sensibility," a blandishment of the literary critic, has become "consciousness," a cliche of the cultural revolutionary. But her view still holds; as an essayist and a power in New York literary circles...
Through all this, the pace never varies. We are treated to cliche camera work (fading back and forth between blurred background and foreground figures, over the shoulder shots into mirrors) and cliche background music (B.B. King singing "The Thrill Is Gone" as the violinist lies bored during her husband's...
The inaugural issue is mainly no table for the influence of Paris Match, a firm faith in black and white photographs as well as color, and an emphasis on energy and human interest rather than elegance of design. It contains a previously unpublished, 17-year-old interview with Marilyn Monroe...
Such is the basis of Peter Weir's new film The Last Wave, a rather stodgy thriller involving Aborigines, magic, secret underground cities, and Mother Nature at her most perverse. This is Weir's fourth film, the first to be released in this country, and in it he shows a...