Word: cliches
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...Wilson. Geraldine and her creator are like nothing that has ever appeared on a top-rated weekly variety hour. It is not simply that both are black, although that is significant enough. It is that Geraldine is pure ghetto caricature. Half the fun of her characterization comes from the clichés of the black experience that she embodies, the other half from put-ons of conventional white attitudes toward that experience. Five years ago, any network executive worth his Valium would have sworn that these were not the ingredients of mass entertainment...
...cliché is the hat in the ring, but last week Democrat John Lindsay tossed in his political right hand, Deputy Mayor Richard Aurelio. Aurelio, the mayor announced, will leave city hall next month to explore further the prospects of a Lindsay presidential nomination. He will set up an office with a small staff and travel continually. Lindsay's decision whether to run, expected early next year, will be based largely on Aurelio's soundings...
...seems almost sacrilegious to yawn at Rome, even in the secular sense. The city is still overwhelmingly attractive, indeed seductive: an Eternal City, according to the cliché, insinuating its spirit of timelessness into those who visit it. That attribute may be unfortunate for Roman Catholic churchmen. For while one can stand in Rome, innocently confident that the Catholic world still spins around the Vatican in reverent orbit, the facts are different. There are times when the center cannot hold, as Yeats said. Most especially it cannot hold when it is the center of an institution that fails to comprehend...
...would be poppycock for anyone to attempt to explain away the convicts' actions with the oft-heard clichés that, after all, they were 1) innocent "victims of our harsh society," 2) in prison "only because they were black," or 3) "political prisoners." Governor Rockefeller did exactly the right thing. And now let's not have the courts get lenient with these murderous convicts...
...married to Elizabeth, whom he "likes," but his only real involvement is an obsessive affair with Natalia Jones, the wife of another M.P. On the face of it Natalia seems a routine bitch. Her jealousy, her suicide threats, her retreat to her husband when Tony becomes serious are all clich...