Word: cliches
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...fails to distinguish an artist from a grunion-but Nevelson's abundant output has also been, until quite recently, strictly edited, so that it bears an imposing sense of consistency and energy. There are 80-year-old artists who are content to repeat their own formal inventions as clichés. Most, though not all, of Nevelson's work is free from that tendency. If she is not one of the great formal innovators of modern sculpture-and her contribution to its syntax cannot fairly be compared with Picasso's, Tatlin's, Brancusi...
...hardly one major 20th century artist-not even Alexander Calder or Henry Moore- whose essential oeuvre includes much public, commissioned sculpture. On the public scale, the suppleness of intuition tends to stiffen and is replaced more often than not by a mild form of self-parody. The old cliché was the bronze general on horseback, humiliated by birds. The new one is the abstract ashtray by some Top Name in the windy downtown plaza, victimized by creeps with spray cans...
...heart of the role. This is particularly true in the Nile Scene, where Aïda tussles with her passion for Radames and her love of country. It is a surefire conflict that, after more than a century and countless productions, can easily turn into a theatrical and musical cliché. Von Karajan and his longtime protegee Freni make...
...most glaring and obvious fact that appears from the data collected from our celestial neighbors is that none are even remotely similar to earth. The cliché, "There's no place like home," rings true. Whatever else space exploration may provide, it will surely not be the new "suburb" into which to move when the neighborhood goes...
...Aussie with a quick wit. Laura doesn't fit: she is too thin and gawky, too smart and eager. In an attempt to see Laura's world through her eyes, Director Beresford turns the other girls into vaudeville minxes and betrays a weakness for the ingratiating visual cliché. But the film sparks to life when Laura falls in with-and into heroine-worshiping love with-Evelyn (Hilary Ryan), a beautiful, dark-eyed senior classwoman who is everything Laura hopes to become. In one lovely scene, Evelyn beckons the girl to join her in bed. They pull...