Word: cliches
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Unscripted is far better done than K Street, maybe because its "real" people--actors like Hank Azaria and Bonnie Hunt, directors like Garry Marshall and Sam Mendes--are used to Hollywood fakery. It does, however, dip into show-biz-is-a-bummer clich??s, especially with Jen and Bryan. One story line has another actor horning in on Bryan's auditions, a plot recently explored on NBC's Joey--not the kind of comparison HBO generally angles...
...Taha takes his own advice very much to heart. "I've understood that if we bend to the clichés and roles society assigns us, we'll never progress, never integrate, never really learn from each other," he says. "In a way, I guess I've become so integrated I can now stand apart and do things my way." Like rocking the Casbah - in Arabic...
...John Dransfield of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) at Kew in the U.K., "we are discovering new species at an astounding rate." Many, like the now-famous rosy periwinkle, a source of compounds used to treat leukemia and Hodgkin's disease, have huge medicinal potential. "It has become a cliché to describe Madagascar as a Noah's Ark," says Dransfield, "but it's true. If we lose Madagascar, we lose an irreplaceable asset." Conservationists are fighting hard to preserve what's left of Madagascar's biodiversity. Not far from the SNGF, the Horticultural Technology Center (CTHA) is propagating rare...
...MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Attack of the Clichés The phrase "at the end of the day" topped a poll of the most irritating clichés in the English language. The poll, conducted by the Plain English Campaign among its 5,000 supporters, identified other terms deemed past their sell-by date: "to be honest," "like" and "thinking outside the box." Fortunately for the unimaginative - and headline writers the world over - some old favorites escaped sanction. There's light at the end of the tunnel, after...
...grooves, and the guitar playing is predictably spectacular, but in the process of stretching the songs Clapton strips them of their intensity. Billy Preston's bouncy keyboards make 32-20 Blues sound like a Country Bear Jamboree performance of Chopin's Funeral March, while the snare hits and harmonica clichés on Traveling Riverside Blues sound like Johnson channeled through a Michelob ad. Clapton's vocals don't help matters. You can tell he's ecstatic to be covering his idol, but his exuberance increases the disconnection between the music and the material. Johnson was one dark dude; when...