Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dream of growing up to be President one day may be a cliché, but until Jackson came along it was only a white cliché. More immediately, Jackson has inspired black adults to run for local office. They were winning on the local level already, especially in cities (four of the six largest have black mayors), but Jackson for the first time has demonstrated black political power on the national level...
...recent sculpture by the American artist Nancy Graves, on view at the Knoedler gallery in New York City through March 29, is her best yet-the work of an artist who, in midcareer, is only now getting into full and impressive stride. To say that Graves, 43, in the cliché of artspeak, is "involved with organic imagery" does no justice to the depth of her entry into the natural world as subject. When so much in current art tends to be either narcissistic reflection on the self, or ironic broodings on cultural dilemmas, she remains one of the very...
Bridges must have spent a lot of time recently watching bad French movies. Every cliché of existential anomie - the aimless driving, the heavy smoking, the elliptical dialogue, the motel-room angst - has been imported to the seedier suburbs of Los Angeles. Saddest of all is the use to which Winger, who shares laurels with Sissy Spacek as the most affecting and natural of Hollywood's bright young actresses, has been put. Forced to play a woman with no past and little presence, who is part blah and part blasé, Winger discards her quirky charms to walk through...
...designed for a latter-day Marie Antoinette. Here the architects became tacky in an orgy of salmon-colored tile and Spanish marble, brass and rosewood, fountains and vegetation and, naturally, a waterfall sculpture. Copley Place's two-level shopping mall is a catalogue of high-priced interior-decorator clich...
...journeyman hits just about the right tone most of the time. He writes well, for instance, but not so well that he seems to be waving a perfumed handkerchief about the landscape. By his campfire after a day of fishing, when it is time to throw a cliché on the flames, he comes up with a good, chunky one: "I woke just once during the night, when a Union Pacific freight train wailed in the distance...