Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood version of the Holiday story is no better. A spindly, cliché-ravaged tale of the sorrows of show biz, Lady Sings the Blues stars Diana Ross, former lead singer of the Supremes. That is a casting coup about as appropriate as signing up Sammy Davis Jr. to play Charlie Parker. It is eerie to watch and listen to Miss Ross, the princess of plastic soul, work her way through such songs as Strange Fruit and God Bless the Child. She has the phrasing, and the Holiday intonation. What she doesn't have is the passion. Her Billie...
...given to white shirts, gray suits and highly polished black shoes. He rarely touches coffee-let alone grass-and confesses that he would be "terrified" to take peyote except under Don Juan's guidance. The phrase "drug culture" is ceaselessly bandied about in America. It is a swollen cliché, and not very descriptive either. Culture, as Castaneda would say, is consensus. Instead we have abundant drug use, which is a different matter...
Peerce is a cinematic version of Frank Sullivan's clichè expert. During the tree-climbing episodes, the camera peers up from a low angle, the sun making dainty little flares in the lens. During a confrontation in the drawing room of Pinny's Boston home, a clock ticks loudly, a desperate device intended to lend a little spine to the sponge cake theatrics. As for the unfortunate actors, they are all nonprofessionals and are likely to remain...
Game. It is a cliché by now that the U.S. has its own Metternich in Henry Kissinger, and that the makings of a 19th century-style balance of power are present in that five-sided world-the U.S., Western Europe, Japan, the Soviet Union and China-that so fascinates President Nixon. But the world is much more complex than it was when Europe's aristocratic diplomats invented "the game of nations" 200 years ago. The five "powers" are by no means equally balanced, equally willing or able to play the game. Example: the dueling between West Germany...
...parties," he says. "It's also an excellent relief from the anguish of painting-an attempt to regain my social equilibrium and to give back to society something of what it has so generously given me: education, respect, dignity, artistic freedom." Thus he is the opposite of the cliché that stuck to Abstract Expressionism-the artist as roaring boy, trapped and goaded by his own tragic energies, armed with much myth but no history, articulate only at brush point...