Word: cliches
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...team's 24th reunion with the coach under whom it won the state title, Jason Miller is fouled by the imperatives of the film medium. The intimacy of the tight shot tends to expose the characters' sad life stories, since the big win is a tissue of clichés. Miller's busy direction keeps isolating each player, breaking up the dazzling and distracting team moves he had written for the play. In these circumstances, the crises and revelations of the evening (one teammate is having an affair with another's wife, several are involved...
...multitude of people in a multitude of imaginative ways. That they manage this without causing any loss of sympathy for him shows a close analysis of the problem of selling the star when he is not defending Rocky's title as the heavyweight champion of the heartwarming clich...
Vituperation sits lightly on the 50-year-old Russian, who has settled in Washington with his wife. Jaunty, good humored and fit, he jogs four miles almost every morning in the city's parks and around Capitol Hill. Extraordinarily productive, he has confounded every cliché about the predicament of the writer in exile. Although cut off from his natural readers, as well as from the subject matter of his books and the living language of his art, Aksyonov explains in fluent English: "I brought enough baggage with me in my head to last for the rest...
...fact, they are. Their grid and curlicues come out of Matisse via Richard Diebenkorn, suffering indignities in translation: the drawing is sloppy, the color mud. There are also some steals from Robert Motherwell, in the form of maps of Europe with overpainting. Such work is homage rendered as cliché; but then Schnabel's reputation rests more on his plate paintings, layer on layer of broken crockery combined with things like antlers and twigs and slathered in paint...
...corncob, underneath the plastered-down hair, is Laurence Olivier as the general, unable to cut loose either with an approximation of MacArthur's grand manner or the satire of it he seems sometimes to want to try. On the ground in Korea, caught in a withering enfilade of clichés, is Ben Gazzara as an officer with no unit, no fixed duties and an inexplicable relationship to the general that permits him to witness all sorts of unedifying carnage. He has an estranged wife (rather gamely played by Jacqueline Bisset), whose function it is to become a refugee...