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The ritual is performed at the wedding altar when Heather marries a man who turns out to be a homosexual. Rachel notices him wearing lipstick and eyeshadow in a local wine bar, and the reader is left to wonder how bovine the bride must be to have been led into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ashes Of Envy A FRIEND FROM ENGLAND | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

And Frantic isn't so bad either. As a matter of fact, it more nearly matches that critical cliche than most of the other movies on which the term is carelessly slapped. One can easily imagine Old Master Slyboots going for Roman Polanski's basic premise.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man Who Knew Too Little FRANTIC | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

The Big D: That worn-out cliche about defense winning a game resurfaced last weekend at Bright Center.

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Harvard-Cornell, USA-NHL | 2/18/1988 | See Source »

February 3, 1982: The setting was the same, but the script--a bit cliche by this time perhaps--had been changed dramatically, the Cinderella story left on a shelf to gather dust until the time again was right.

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Icemen Drop Another Shot at 'Pot | 2/3/1988 | See Source »

WHILE he was no doubt astute in avoiding cliche, the surrealism of these scenes detracts from the power of their subject. And a difficult-to-fathom subplot involving an unrequited romance with a Vietnamese woman adds neither heat nor light to the production. Levinson has, in fact, included more subplots...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Go Back to Bed | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

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