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...house, and insecure Solly is unfulfilled by her family. See a trend?The themes of “Arlington Park”—dreams and ambitions stripped away by domesticity, spirits and personalities quailed by marriage, energy suppressed and freedom thwarted by maternity—are trite contemporary fodder. But to give her credit, Cusk redeems these stale themes with exquisite language and is on aesthetic high ground, safe from criticism of low-brow unoriginality.Cusk’s words are so lovely that they make the tongue itch; it’s hard to resist the temptation...
...completely trite but true advice you read in supermarket magazines: fame is fleeting and life is short. If you want a life of panic that starts before the sun rises, is filled with rushing from the committee hearing, to the green room to the power lunch, thrilling cocktail party and then ends with Ambien so you can sleep off all the coffee you drank during the day to get through all that... then great. If you don't, then you'll have to work twice as hard to keep that life from taking control...
...creative minds behind the charmingly idiosyncratic S&M romantic comedy “Secretary”—have taken the idea to new heights with “Fur,” reaching for margins so extreme as to be unpalatable and a center so trite as to be meaningless. The film begins in media res, with legendary photographer Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman) donning a coat of hair that makes her look like some sort of vulture and swooping into a nudist camp. We soon backtrack to see Arbus as an Amish-looking housewife attending to her loving...
...long as we’re tossing out trite clichés, remember this one: There’s nothing new under the sun. Neither this cartoon theme, nor this problem is original to your cartoonist...
...subtle lyrics reminiscent of protest songs from the '60s. Their newest album, entitled Oye, has an anthem called, literally, Protest Song (Canci?n Protesta in the original Spanish). Other lyrics tend towards love and karma and the cosmos. It sounds like it could be the worst combination of the politically trite with the New Age - but it's not. The Aterciopelados have been the critical darling of the rock en espa?ol scene for good reason. And their work simply gets better with every passing album...