Word: clicheed
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Jessica's parents seemed determined to give their daughter independence from the start: she was delivered in a birthing tub without benefit of doctor or midwife. Her mother Lisa Blair Hathaway says she wanted her daughter to have a feeling of "floating." Her parents seemed to embrace a philosophy that...
Ted Kaczynski, meanwhile, broke one or two sly smiles during his arraignment in Helena, Montana, but was otherwise docile and impassive. He had taken the cliche about serial killers--he was a quiet boy, never got in any trouble--and raised it to an art form. He had cast no...
"Serious plays today tend to be more political, episodic, cinematic," says Jory. "They tend to be less about wanting, after all these years, to have your father say, 'I love you.'" Yet reconciliation informed many of the festival works, including two lovely playlets, Lucas' What I Meant Was (a young...
What makes this pursuit more absurd is that Harvard lavishes honors upon almost all of her students. "Cum Laude in General Studies," which has been transformed for the thin-skinned into the less euphemistic, "Cum Laude," offers more than 80 percent of the class the opportunity to snag honors without...
Corot was lucky in having a modest private income--his parents were well-off dressmakers in Paris--and he did not need to labor constantly on the big machines that spelled success or failure at the Salons. So he could work on the studies for their own sake, and these...