Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shipler contends that his story was not written to dash these hopes: "I'm not an advocate of anything. It's a cliché, but the reporter's function is to observe and report. The story took shape only after a lot of legwork." Shipler also has his boss's support. When Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal arrived in Saigon for a visit last week, he declined Martin's offer of an interview...
...surrogate father. Indeed, it seems reasonable to expect that the movie will end with a shot of the sailor and the kid walking away from the camera, arms around each other, talking bravely about the future. Mark Rydell is not a director (The Fox, The Cowboys) to avert clichés or confound expectations. The only curiosity is what takes him so long to get around to such a finale...
...this respect, as in many others, medicine stands alone among the professions. Poor performance by a tax accountant, an architect, or a tort lawyer can usually be expressed in terms of dollars, which any layman can understand. Not so with medicine. The cliché has it that medicine is as much art as science. Granted, the art part is in tangible and immeasurable. But much of the science part of medicine remains largely hit or miss. One doctor will pre scribe twice as much of a potent antibiotic as another, or prescribe a needlessly dangerous drug. One surgeon will hurry...
This old and unreliable cliché remains in vogue precisely because it is a comfort to the cynically inert conscience. Why risk a moral stance if evil, greed and calculated self-interest will invariably win out? Win they certainly do in The Visit. Clara Zachanassian (Rachel Roberts), a middle-aging, much-married multimillionairess, has come back to her impoverished home town of Gullen with a rather special proposition. She will bestow half a billion marks on the town and another half a billion to be divided equally among its citizens in return for what might be called Salome...
...short, it seems that Mies, like his opponent Frank Lloyd Wright in the snailly windings of the Guggenheim Museum, felt a lofty unconcern verging on arrogance toward the needs of arts other than his own. Every grand old man has a prescriptive right to his clichés. But few have exercised it with more ruthlessness than Mies van der Rohe in this, his last building...