Word: trite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parallels between Evelyn's dilemmas about her future and her lover are heavy-handed and trite, and the authors make Evelyn seem shallow and foolish. Her realization that she does not need a man's guidance attempts to save the play from sexism, but this epiphany still comes much too late...
Shakespeare's play The Two Gentlemen of Verona proves that even the illustrious Bard wrote trite plays. Nevertheless, the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian Theater Workshop manages to redeem this textual mess, and director Artie Wu creates an enjoyable production...
...freshman Vukonich, who is now affectionately known as Vuke, reeked of his Duluth, Minn. upbringing, and his matriculation at Harvard was straight out of the trite tradition of "small-town kid comes to big city...
...stroke 16 months ago, he was able to give the opening address at the first A.N.C. conference held inside South Africa in three decades. He surprised many delegates by calling for a re-evaluation of economic sanctions against Pretoria. "It is no longer enough," he said, "to repeat trite slogans." The A.N.C. leadership decided otherwise. The next day the conference unanimously passed a resolution rejecting any change in its sanctions policy...
...other photographic works were not as interesting as Butterick's. Richard Robbins' "Five Pieces from Paris Series 1990," for example, was dull and trite. All the images were slightly blurred, presumably to add a certain softness or ambiguity to the works. They did not. And the abrupt frames which lopped off heads and feet created a jarring view of the scene. These frames were unoriginally employed--ever since Toulouse-Lautrec, the arbitrary, non-classical frame has been employed to make audience members re-evaluate their perspective, but here that re-evaluation seemed pointless. To say the least, the frames have...