Word: cliches
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...economy while leaving the market free. Some of his ideas are familiar pleas of liberal reformers: he would have the Government strive to improve opportunities for the poor through more job-training programs and make certain that all low-income families receive food stamps, housing allowances and Medicaid. "The cliché should at least be validated," he says. "The market should not be allowed to legislate life and death...
...worldly knowledge that no policy will work without compromise. But the authors believe that official silence and mouselike retirement are often the result of a national emphasis on team play at all costs. Resignation argues that "not rocking the boat," "not blowing the whistle," and a dozen similar clichés have become part of the psyche of many Americans...
Your drama critic says that Glenda Jackson [May 5] has reduced Hedda Gabler's "Dionysian will to freedom" to a case of "suburban jitters." Is that a "travesty" or an updating? Hedda was trivialized before Ms. Jackson took her up. The "unfulfilled woman" has become a cliché, and that is indeed a tragedy...
...Pentagon, as the generals and admirals went briskly about something they understood, long, languorous James Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense, paced and puffed on his pipe. He quoted Shakespeare and wore a melancholy mask some of the time because in his world, men would have to shed blood, not clich...
Beyond Caricature. In fact, the real heroes are the Bolshoi dancers, who survive Grigorovich's overly athletic, cliché-ridden choreography with amazing élan. The crowd scenes, whether they involve battles, conspiring boyars or rebellious peasants, are confused and repetitive, and pale in excitement by comparison with the kind of dashing maneuvers performed by Russia's folkish Moiseyev company. Every grimace and gesture seems aimed broadly at viewers in the last row of the top balcony. Naturally, the boyars are evil beyond the point of caricature; the peasants are simple and good...