Word: clichees
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On his way to the stage on Oscar night, it crossed Art's mind to say in his acceptance speech: "You're looking at an actor whose price has just doubled." He did not say it, but it is true. Offers are beginning to come in. There may...
You have to be there to sense the mania connected with the Oscars. Television has cooled us off so much that we forget that there is something going on, live when we watch the Awards. Three thousand people are sitting on tacks, and it's not because they're worried...
Texas has too long existed in the vacuum of superficial generalities accepted by both outsiders and natives. The diversity that gives Texas its special character is so obvious that it has become a cliche, and has never attracted more than superficial study, as in John Bainbridge's The Super Americans...
After a while prolific artists cannibalize their own work: You 're a Big Girl Now is a lesser Just Like a Woman. From a working poet, a line like "They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn" is a dismal cliche.
Like most contemporary humorists, Monty Python homes in wherever it spots a cliche so rotten it's ready to split open in an explosion of laughter. They take a line like "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition" and turn it into a six-minute joke when Cardinal Fang bursts...