Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know the cliché that the wife is the last to know about her husband's affair. Why, then, is it inconceivable that President Nixon was uninformed about the activities of his subordinates? ANITA LOIS MCDERMOTT Roanoke...
...Actors. Current news of public officials indicted or newly convicted of crimes sustains the ancient cliché of democratic life-that politics is a dirty business. Yet most professional politicians and a great many other observers of American life are convinced that despite all the depressing evidence, American politics is not endemically corrupt, and that Watergate is not to be used for glib generalizations...
...blow her off her unsteady feet with little gusts of adolescent energy. They nearly do not get together. Miss Fisher, despairing of herself and of some mysterious, occasionally violent speech impediment, attempts suicide, but is revived by the eager Walter, who finds himself bleating all manner of hortatory clichés:"We're free!"; "We have to smile in the rain!"; "We're coming alive!" Soon they whistle and wheeze together...
...afford cigarettes. The plot of this intermittently interesting science-fiction thriller is about a cop (Charlton Heston) whose investigations lead him to the true and appalling origin of soylent green. The story is rather less notable than the fact that its alarming social prognosis has already become a cliché. It is all too likely that such ecological chaos may occur, but there have been so many melodramatic warnings about it in essays and speculative fantasies such as this that urgency becomes blunted and worn through repetition. Heston, forsaking his granite stoicism for once, makes a properly gruff policeman...
...literary convention, the official folk hero of latter-day Southern fiction: epic hunter, epic drinker, epic lecher, with the classic weakness for a maddening black girl down among the cabins. Humphrey is accomplished at what he does and is moved by his own myth. But he cannot surmount the clich...