Word: clicheed
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In the classic cliche, she is her husband's severest critic. "I can't think of one of my novels she's really liked," says Updike. "When she read The Poorhouse Fair, she said, 'Why do you want to write about all those old people? After...
His triumph, both in terms of film technique and directorial approach, is in the audience's almost immediate acceptance of special effects as reality: after we have seen a stewardess walk up a wall and across the ceiling early in the film, we no longer question similar amazements and accept...
Sir: If there is something worse than neglect of our public schools, it is the spectacle of teachers manning a picket line [March 8]. No matter how worthy are demands that educators be given professional status and their institutions increased respect and support, locking a child out of his classroom...
So we are now the "Walter Mittys of the left," we who oppose napalm recruitment, who use terms like "genocide" too loosely (or is it too strictly?), who would deny "free speech" to men who authorize the unashamed bombing of civilians. Surely, it is his best new cliche since that...
To give his slow story some contrapuntal rhythm and social significance, Lelouch cuts from shots of the triangle (filmed in Technicolor), to monochromatic scenes of conflict in Africa and Asia, presumably covered by the hero. The vulgar-cliche style of these sequences can only be described in Nabokov's...