Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...represented in the West End by a romantic comedy called House of Cards, about an architect who suspects his wife of adultery. Stoppard opens The Real Thing with a scene from House of Cards, a brilliantly brittle Coward parody full of stiff-upper-libido dialogue like "I abhor cliché. It's one of the things that has kept me faithful." As it happens, the two leading players in House of Cards are Henry's wife Charlotte (Christine Baranski) and his friend Max (Kenneth Welsh). And Henry has just begun a secret, convulsive love affair with...
...realistic approach lies in the written character of the social workers and psychologists who deal with the problem. They are all unrelievedly sympathetic. But this is a minor quibble. Amelia provides an exception to the network's tired formula for taboo breaking by avoiding prurience and comforting clich...
...song that way, that you detract from the lyrics by interpreting them. Images in Burning Down the House have to do with the music, not the lyrics. The images of the fire and the house link to the words, but the house is never burning. That would be a clich...
...background of All the Right Moves may be gunmetal gray, but the characters and situations are as colorful as your favorite coming-of-age clichés. These teen-agers are good-looking kids with big dreams and a bright line of patter. The coach carries on like a sensitive drill sergeant, psyching his team into a football frenzy by using curses, inspirational locker-room speeches and the odd face-mask violation. Michael Chapman, who graduated to the director's chair with this film after making his name as the cinematographer of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Personal Best...
...were the plot of a Le Carré thriller, the story might be dismissed as a mass of melodramatic clichés. But it happened in real life, and as related in the flat legalistic prose of an FBI affidavit filed in federal court in San Francisco and from the account of a West Coast lawyer, it goes like this: An American engineer who already had sold some low-grade U.S. defense secrets to Polish intelligence marries an alcoholic secretary who has one thing he needs: a security clearance to handle truly valuable documents. Before the wedding, she lets...