Word: clicheed
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It is barely more than a quarter of a century since Huxley had a vile vision of mankind's future, in which a scientific power elite of cads presided over a proletariat of test-tube-bred sub-morons kept happy on a tranquilizer called soma. The elite could dispose...
As a period-piece reproduction, Suzie Wong comes in the original raspberry plush, with every dusty, looped inanity. every faded, tasseled cliche in place. Joshua Logan's staging nowhere intrudes a jarring present-day touch. Though the swarming street and cafe passages have hurly, and sometimes burly too, the...
The cliche that became fashionable ear ly in the 20th century - "A man is as old as his arteries" - may have to be revised to "A man is as old as his enzymes." Then, as researchers unravel the mys teries of enzyme chemistry, enzyme supplements for mature men and women...
WATER Music, by Bianco VanOrden (254 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), is at bottom an old-fashioned novel about the tortuous ways of young love, even if its style flashes like high-IQ gossip and the characters are as plausibly etched as perfect counterfeit money. In 309 East & a Night of...
For decades, farm-bloc politicians have bid for higher and higher farm subsidies, claiming that economic depressions are "farm-led and farm-fed." Last week the U.S. saw the old cliche working precisely in reverse. Leading and feeding the recovery from recession was the sharpest rise in farm income since...