Word: cliches
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...look at the [World War I] poetry of Siegfried Sassoon or Wilfred Owen, one of the things they keep trying to bring out is that the language can't grasp the horror of what they've seen. You just fall back on cliché. [Sept. 11] was one of the moments that you realize how inadequate language...
...indulge me as I chip in my two cents about our national ordeal, and how it has breathed life into the sports clich of gaining perspective...
...clich of gaining perspective means something. As the nation mourns, the cynicism that marked the pro sports world before the events of two weeks ago is experiencing a moratorium of sorts...
...intersects film most lucidly in the dream sequence in Spellbound. Wanting to avoid the clichéd soft focus approach, Hitchcock sought out Salvador Dalí to help him depict an amnesiac patient's dream in the clarity of reality. "What I was looking for was the living side of dreams," said Hitchcock. "All of Dalí's work is very large with sharp angles, long views and black shadows." The result of the collaboration was grandiose - five different sets were built involving Dalí's painted decorations and miniature sets - but most of the scene ended...
However falsified it may now be, however much of a cliché it may have been even at the dawn of the 20th century, there's no doubt about the Edenic promise of California to generation after generation of Americans. To the gold seekers of 1850 no less than to the desperate migrant Okies of the Depression, to the wannabe actress on the bar stool in Schwab's as to the migrant lettuce pickers from Mexico and the Jewish kid getting into the nickelodeon business, California signified hope, plenty, release and transcendence. It was the New World's New World...