Word: cliches
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...years since Swiss Psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach published a set of inkblots to be used for probing the personality, his name has become a household cliché for psychological testing. But when Rorschach died in 1922, at the age of 37, he had barely begun to extend the application of his test from mental patients to normal subjects, and he was still working with only ten cards. Those same ten cards are in use today...
...never be chilled") to find the answer. "My head is full of you," says David, ignoring his typewriter. "That's wrong," says Barbara mock-sternly, "it's supposed to be full of beautiful words and declarative sentences." It takes a heap of declarative sentences, including several inverse clichés that are almost as good as clichés ("Love makes the world go square"), to establish the fact that David and Barbara are less soulmates than checkmates. At musical's end, he is going back to his native Maine to quarry more durable prose, and Barbara...
...days have a yen to go classical. This latest attempted fusion of longhair and brushcut involves seven pieces for string ensemble by Composer-Arranger Eddie Sauter against which Saxophonist Getz pins his softly twining improvisations. The string pieces are in fact little more than an assortment of film-style clichés, but Getz's solos-soaring, tumbling and melting-are worth the price of the album...
...Arch Cliché." Even painting failed. After a visit to Cambodia in 1959, Congdon returned home to Venice convinced that he had exhausted his creative reserve. In this searching mood, he went to Assisi and became a Catholic...
...abstract painter, he is appalled at the emptiness and formality of most modern art. "It is the purest materialism," he argues. "My painting seems more important than ever. It has much better perspective than other modern art. Without faith, abstract expressionism is becoming art's arch clich...