Word: clicheed
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Neither Sly Stallone nor Oliver Stone can put the whole picture of Viet Nam on a movie screen. There were 2.7 million stories in the naked jungle. Each veteran has his own view of the war, and each will have his own vision of Platoon. More than a few are...
The performance is to regional theater standards, ranging from fair to good. The Huntington's style puts quite a bit of weight on the actor's shoulders, and generally they dig into their melodramatic motivations with not a trace of self-consciousness. Particularly good is Gary Sloan, who keeps the...
WHAT GAVE the staged Little Shop its appeal was the purity of its homage to Cliche. Writer and lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken built their Little Shop out of an inestimable number of dramatic, social, cinematic and musical commonplaces. Superficially, it followed the plot of the Corman picture...
Much of a reader's pleasure lies in the urbanity with which Schlesinger rebuts received wisdom, as when in three crisp sentences he demolishes the ruling cliche of '80s politics: "Ronald Reagan is cited as the inevitable product of the television age. But Reagan, one surmises, would have been equally...
IT MIGHT BE a cliche of psychology to say that each individual fights an internal battle between having to obey the norms of society and wanting to go on a murderous rampage, eliminating all the petty annoyances of life. There are stories aplenty of people--the Babbits and the Rambos...