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Another ingrown cliche concerns the value of "green belts" that girdle some cities. On planners' maps, green belts look wonderful. In reality, says Whyte, they have never served to contain a city's growth or to afford useful green space for its people. If open space just sits...
Like the prostitute with the heart of gold, the soldier who quakes at the sight of senseless human misery (see the Green Berets) is becoming a well-known cliche, but McGuire slides into the type, probably not as a sham. He is more a soldier of fortune than soldier, however...
Palpable Authenticity. Behrman's ending is an embarrassing cliche, but his mastery of dialogue shines on every page, and the ease with which he routes characters on and off the scene amounts to sleight of hand. But what gives the book its real fascination is its palpable authenticity. Behrman...
In the commercial narrative, concerns are conveyed chiefly through genre films: westerns, war films, science-fiction and detective melodramas, among many others. The critical consensus has always been that genre restricts, an attitude shared still by condescending, if blind, people like Pauline Kael or Bosley Crowther. But for all the...
To his credit, there are several first-rate tunes and some pretty fair lyrics in Her First Roman. I like a number called "Rome" for both elements, especially the following lyric: "Rome: I long to be at her side, a groom with his day-old bride, trading my dusty sandals...