Word: cliches
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...Some elements do feel forced and clich, such as Tiny, Diana's brother played by Ray Santiago, who is stuck taking boxing lessons when he'd rather be designing fashions. Yet, for the most part Kusama avoids many of the tired conventions of the genres this film invokes. Unlike, say, She's All That, Diana's transformation from an offensive and frightening bitch into a beautiful and self-assured woman does not involve suddenly putting on lipstick and high heels. Instead, the way she manipulates her dark, piercing eyes, which are emphasized throughout the film, does the trick. And although...
...Unfortunately, somebody didn't take as much care with the cliché-ridden copy written up for Tipper. (Many of whose lines, embarrassingly, Al ended up repeating almost verbatim in his speech afterward.) "It was the late '60s, an exciting time, a time of change," she was forced to say. And "But soon Al faced the most important decision of his young life: Vietnam." It sounded like "Al Gore: Behind the Music...
...know, maybe that was the point. Take a look at the signifiers on that screen. A handsome young man charting his course through the '60s and '70s, with all their rock'n'roll clichés. Discovering true, lifelong love to the plangent sound of guitars, he in his dark feathered hair, she in her blond feathered hair. She standing behind him, always with her camera. Could it be? Were they telling us that Tipper was Linda Eastman? And Al Gore... Paul McCartney...
...every way of celebrating the nation's birthday in writing or speaking--seems to have been done a dozen times already. Just imagine the frustration, then, of the writer sitting before a keyboard the night of July 3 knowing that every good idea has already been ground into a clich...
What's more, celebrations help a team maintain a generally loose demeanor, and teams don't play well when they are stressed out. How many times have you heard a coach or player tell the media, "We've gotta play loose tonight?" It's a clich, but a valid one. And what better way to stay loose than to clown around a bit after a touchdown...