Word: cliches
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dynamic Duo? Thanks for a balanced look at new York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, warts and all [July 23]. Both are in their seventh decade, yet their approach to politics is progressive and refreshing. No conservative clichés and smoke-screen social issues; just good old-fashioned compromise and common sense. Isn't that what governing is all about? Bob August, REPUBLICANS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, NASHVILLE...
...course, just a random ugly experience - the kind of thing that can happen anywhere. But it was the first day I'd ever spent in South Africa, and it left an impression. As I'd discovered firsthand, it can be hard to escape the damaging clichés about Africa - about the perennial curses of bribery, corruption and lawlessness. These negative associations with Africa were much on the minds of people at the summit in Cape Town. "We are fighting an image problem," said Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese-born cell-phone magnate who has created a multi-million-dollar prize...
...Soon after arriving in Iraq, Petraeus invented a formulation that has since become a cliché: the disparity between the two "clocks" - Washington and Baghdad time - for ending the war. The Washington clock is "late fourth quarter, we're down a touchdown, and the other team has the ball," a senior Administration official told me. Petraeus knows that the American public is tired of the war - tired of not winning it, at least - and that a significant chunk of the Republicans in Congress may be about to abandon President Bush, as the respected Senator Richard Lugar did on June...
...bravado of heroes in Howard Hawks westerns, the desperate friendship in war-movie foxholes, the sass and sarcasm exchanged by slobby Oscar and his poker pals in The Odd Couple. It exists in real life, too, of course, in less appealing ways than Knocked Up lets on. The old cliché, of construction workers giving out with the wolf whistle at women walking by their site, has become the new one, of slackers avidly calibrating the activities of movie actresses in the nude...
...Like its predecessors The Cities Book and The Travel Book, this volume is stuffed with photographs-perhaps overly so. Images fight for attention on some layouts. There are also occasional lapses into Orientalist cliché-think saffron-robed monks, misty sunrises and cute, ethnically garbed children. But you'll find enough quality to keep the pages turning. The wealth of quirky factoids also helps: Bhutan, for instance, has a "Gross National Happiness" indicator, and did you know that a German minority (numbering 15,000 souls) can be found in Kyrgyzstan? Don't look for any depth here-the scope...