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His friend Marco (Greg Martyn) embodies a more generic rags-to-riches cliche. A strapping Italian hunk, he becomes the rich actress's kept man, uses her money to start himself in business, then (after eluding an attempt to deport him) vows to get an education and make lots...
"Ask a freshman and they have a one-line cliche [describing each House] like, 'Oh, Kirkland, that's for jocks.' Houses have a lot more to offer than freshmen think they do--there's more to each House than one line," Segal said.
Director Carlos Lapuerta adds a sense of creativity and imagination to the staging as we watch the plot and subplots smoothly unfold. Look for the predictable (and typically Shakespearean) swordfights, women dressing like men, hidden identities, a death or two, an ending with two marriage engagements, and the requisite comic...
Neither he nor any of his contemporaries cared much about the social background or specific religious meanings of the work - and probably the more lowbrow avantgardists, like Maurice de Vlaminck, mentally reduced it all to mission ary-stew, bone-in-the-nose cliche. Not even Brancusi, whose borrowings of African...
The cord that unites mother and son may be Western society's most powerful bond, yet attitudes toward the relationship are either murky or coated over with cliche. "We think we're comfortable with it, but culturally what we get are caricatures," argues Carole Klein, a longtime observer...