Word: clicheed
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Reynolds has gone back to basics. He played a policeman on TV's Hawk and Dan August and in the films Hustle and Sharkey's Machine. In Rent-a-Cop, he is Church, a good detective in bad odor because of a fatally botched drug bust. There's a psychopath...
At Cu Chi, an hour northwest of Saigon, government tour guides fire their only major barrage of propaganda. In a lecture complete with pointer and diagrams, Nguyen Viet Hai, 33, details how ingenious Viet Cong escaped detection by U.S. soldiers by hiding out in a network of narrow, subterranean tunnels...
In outline, Moonstruck might seem an offer anyone could refuse. The Italo- American characters and mannerisms are familiar from several Martin Scorsese movies and a hundred lowbrow sitcoms. But Screenwriter John Patrick Shanley has an ear that confounds cliche and a plot that is both devious and inevitable. As photographed...
Here is where most coaches stumble. Some coaches come off sounding like they got their educations at Cliche U. Others like their previous employers were, respectively, I.B.M., Apple and Wang. Some broken souls prefer not to give a speech at all, but just answer questions with "yes" or "no" or...
Trying to finger specific blame is to be avoided. It does nothing to further the healing process and restore Harvard's reputation as the home of free intellectual discourse. But while the cliche says it takes two to tango, Harvard has seen that it takes three to shut off a...