Word: cliches
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...champion cliché word in the contemporary lexicon is paranoia. Like most clichés, it gained its currency from actual conditions. A tragic example is an incident that took place in a Chicago supermarket parking lot. David Munoz, 10, earned soda-pop and movie money by carrying grocery bags to customers' cars. As he was crossing the parking area carrying loaded bags, he passed an armored truck. Inside was a guard, Ronald Brannan, who was waiting for his partner to pick up the supermarket receipts...
Depending on one's point of view, Davis' vision may seem like an expanded version of a racial cliché, or like a black rhapsody. His approach, however, is practical. As president of Third World Cinema, a film company that is also a New York-based community project, he is helping young blacks learn about all aspects of film making. With federal funding, TWC has established an on-the-job training program for aspiring black and Puerto Rican moviemakers, with 53 apprentices now working, and a film school is in the planning stages. TWC's film plans...
...stereo set, transistor and white antiseptic machine for nonliving that he calls his "home unit." He adores his wife (Barbara Caruso) though she makes him a voyeur to his own cuckolding. He has unquestioning faith in his friends, though they are parasitic phonies. Perishing in a snowdrift of optimistic clichés, Bentley loses all - home, wife, job, future...
Elia Kazan, of stage and screen, broke into bestselling novel writing five years ago with The Arrangement, in which a middle-aged adman turns intellectual and works up a healthy sweat over old values and a new woman. The prose was rough cut; the characters were slabs of emotional clichés. Kazan was not out to master the novel form but to overwhelm it on his way to the movie script...
Banned were such clichés as long introductions, phony folksiness and chorus lines with phalanxes of pretty legs flung up into the camera. "The best contribution I can make as a producer is to let the personality shine through on the screen," says Henry. "It's a small tube. If you clutter it up with a lot of people, you lose the most interesting thing in the world-the human face." With simplicity as the keynote, nothing was allowed to overshadow the star-Flip Wilson...