Word: clicheed
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Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas is a well-meaning liberal who has traveled from the Rockies to the Himalayas, stalking the Common Man with cliche and camera. In 1948 he reported that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime was "tainted by corrupt and reactionary elements"; it had "lost...
She long ago developed a style all her own, as distinguishable as searchlights at a Hollywood premiere. She has a real talent for using a cliche in precisely the right place, she never avoids phrases like "the reason is because" unless it is impossible not to do so, and she...
The delegates seemed impatient with the time-honored ritual-the prayer, the singing of the national anthem, the welcoming speeches, and the chair's plea, repeated like an incantation, to clear the aisles. Gabrielson delivered his opening speech, his eyes glued to a gadget on the speaker's...
The pre-convention campaign had tested several techniques of television political coverage. One of the most widely used is the panel discussion, which tends, unless rehearsed, to be a hash of unrelated statements. When it is rehearsed, it tends to be a cliche contest. The giant "press conference" is another...
The second feature at the Met, Anything Can Happen, is also supposed to be an "A" film. It isn't. Anything Can Happen is a tedious tidbit about how Georgians from Russia can achieve success in America while still clinging tenaciously to the bizarre traditions of the Caucasian mountains. It...