Word: cliches
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...Everyone knows this generation is supposed to be better educated and more intelligent than the last. If you find yourself mouthing this cliché, then it must be because your talents aren't obvious...
With black and white political roles reversing in Greene County, clichés turn about as well. One black commissioner says of the whites: "All they've ever done is farming. They're too lazy to work." The Rev. Thomas Gilmore, who will run against Big Bill Lee for sheriff, is more compassionate: "Whites have been trained never to listen to blacks. Their minds are so messed up with hate, they just can't understand the problems of black people." Sitting in a gas station, Ernest Brown, 58, takes a longer view of the success...
...Near West Side, now 60% nonwhite. At first glance, the five-square-mile area is dominated by the striking architecture of the University of Illinois' new Circle Campus. Closer inspection reveals a streetscape of despair: low, glum buildings, boarded-up store fronts, infrequent parks, broken curbs. True to cliché, the district's neighborhoods are walled off from one another by three separate lines of railroad tracks, the eight-lane Dan Ryan Expressway and a barge canal. Looming above all are the three 15-story apartment buildings that make up the Brooks Extension public housing project...
...ground, gruff but lovable Troubleshooter George Kennedy is struggling to clear the runway of snow, while the airport's p.r. girl, Jean Seberg, casts concerned glances at stoic Manager Lancaster. Customs Officer Lloyd Nolan tries to keep the flow of contraband at a minimum, but the flow of clichés is not, unfortunately, his department. Produced by Ross Hunter, fearless champion of the industry's carrière-garde (Pillow Talk and Thoroughly Modern Millie), the movie spends over two hours proving what every seasoned traveler already knows: waiting around airports can be a drag...
...meant metaphorically; yet it expressed a profound disillusion with the values of the "older generation"-or perhaps the lack of them. Given little to believe in or rebel against by their liberal parents, the young filled the void with their own lifestyles. The decade's compulsive clichés-"relevant" and "meaningful"-suggested a desperate search for identity...