Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...August, a nondescript homicide detective. Christopher George (Rat Patrol) is resurrected as The Immortal, a racing driver whose blood antibodies "make him immune to all diseases, including the aging process." Like The Fugitive before him, he is on the run-in this case doomed to spend the whole cliché-choked series fleeing an aging and baleful billionaire (David Brian) who wants to siphon off a few pints...
...sacred by millions-"That it snowed every Christmas down to fifteen years ago," for example, or "that oysters are a great aphrodisiac." The Credo badly needs updating. In 50 years, America has become a more divided land, and its favorite truisms are less firmly fixed. But a lot of cliché consensus can still be found. In the public interest, TIME herewith proposes a few articles of faith for a revised edition...
...neighbors and at each other. And all the time you yell, yell, yell. In every way, The People Next Door is an anachronism, a "naturalistic" play like those prevalent in the 1950s. It ran on TV two years ago and has now been transported to the screen with every cliché, every oversimplification, every gross dramatic blunder intact...
...Everyone knows this generation is supposed to be better educated and more intelligent than the last. If you find yourself mouthing this cliché, then it must be because your talents aren't obvious...
...Near West Side, now 60% nonwhite. At first glance, the five-square-mile area is dominated by the striking architecture of the University of Illinois' new Circle Campus. Closer inspection reveals a streetscape of despair: low, glum buildings, boarded-up store fronts, infrequent parks, broken curbs. True to cliché, the district's neighborhoods are walled off from one another by three separate lines of railroad tracks, the eight-lane Dan Ryan Expressway and a barge canal. Looming above all are the three 15-story apartment buildings that make up the Brooks Extension public housing project...