Word: cliches
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Then again, everything about the show feels authentic, including the supporting cast. Robert Walden, as an over-zealous but talented investigative reporter, and Peter Hobbs, as a police-beat hack, avoid most of the acting clichés usually found in Front Page-style entertainments. Nancy Marchand plays the paper's imperious, widowed publisher as a cross between the Washington Post's Katharine Graham and Dorothy Schiff, the former owner of the New York Post. If Marchand and Asner keep up their game of verbal Ping Pong, they could become TV's Hepburn and Tracy...
According to the Scriptures, Christ said to the woman taken in adultery. "Go, and sin no more." Would he, speaking in today's clichés, say something like this: "As to your extramarital affair: Was it self-liberating, other-enriching, life-serving, creative, integrative and joyous? If so, then it was morally acceptable. Go now, and have a good...
...years since Yeats announced that "the center cannot hold," the literature of disintegration has hardened like concrete. Hemingway's nada and Fitzgerald's crackup are now preserved in cliché. It takes talent and ingenuity to put a new face on collapse. A touch of satire and the surreal have become requisites...
Complete this sentence: There is nothing so powerful as . . . ? Yes, class, an idea whose time has come. The cliché does not go far enough. The right idea in the right time and place can also be powerfully profitable. John Kenneth Galbraith's The Age of Uncertainty is part of this happy confluence. The book will receive not only a wide readership (it is already a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club) but also a wide viewership. The BBC has filmed The Age of Uncertainty as a 13-part TV series...
...devoted moviegoer, the nephew might have foreseen the all too predictable misadventures that beset him on his quest. His billion-dollar journey is a veritable clearance sale of Hollywood comedy-adventure clichés. He is conned, harassed, rolled, clumsily kidnaped, chased across the landscape, and jailed by a redneck sheriff. His putative protector in San Francisco, ripely played by Jackie Gleason, is in fact a devious executive who covets the conglomerate for himself. Gleason dispatches Valerie Perrine, as an implausible private eye, to wangle power of attorney out of Hill, but instead, of course, she falls in love with...