Word: cliches
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...afford cigarettes. The plot of this intermittently interesting science-fiction thriller is about a cop (Charlton Heston) whose investigations lead him to the true and appalling origin of soylent green. The story is rather less notable than the fact that its alarming social prognosis has already become a cliché. It is all too likely that such ecological chaos may occur, but there have been so many melodramatic warnings about it in essays and speculative fantasies such as this that urgency becomes blunted and worn through repetition. Heston, forsaking his granite stoicism for once, makes a properly gruff policeman...
...literary convention, the official folk hero of latter-day Southern fiction: epic hunter, epic drinker, epic lecher, with the classic weakness for a maddening black girl down among the cabins. Humphrey is accomplished at what he does and is moved by his own myth. But he cannot surmount the clich...
Within the Republican Party it is almost a cliché that Agnew could win the nomination but not the election, while Connally could win the election but would have a tough time getting the nomination. The Vice President may be wise in concentrating on golf and tennis, keeping his public speeches relatively muted and biding his time. He has indicated that he will no longer let himself be used by the President to make slashing political attacks unless he himself is in total agreement with the points in such speeches. Agnew speaks so rhapsodically about the joys of the good...
...classic western situation but unfortunately, Writer Tidyman and Director Eastwood (who also plays the title role) understand that one man's classic is another's cliché−and are anxious to make sure we know they know. Therefore they stress the mythic overtones that pop cultists are always finding in the standard western forms. All the ritual scenes−Eastwood's menacing entrance ride down Main Street, the saloon confrontation and the barbershop Shootout that establish his credentials as a law-and-order man−are handled so that the emphasis is on archetypicality rather than...
...environment is also a good thing, regardless of cost." Said Stein, "In today's world, if you can look about you and see that things are pretty good, you're not fit to be an editorial writer for the New York Times, my son." Standing a cliché on its head, Stein announced: "Today it is the bearer of good news who is in danger." Duck, Mr. Stein...