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Clinton spoke millions of words--must he go three for three with quotes that trite? If anyone could right the score, Klein would be the guy. Sure, there was the slippery, glib Southern pol inside Bill Clinton, but there was also the thoughtful, work-till-the-last-dog-dies wunderkind. As the first reporter to swoon over the Governor from Arkansas (no one fell harder, save perhaps the New Yorker's Sidney Blumenthal, who fell so hard he ended up inside the Administration), Klein seemed the most famously disappointed whenever the good Clinton gave way to the bad. Klein expressed...
...would be trite to say that there is hope because both sides share a common goal: peace. This banality obscures the fact that they share a lot more in common. In principle, both sides understand what is necessary for a just peace. The details have yet to be resolved, but these specifics cannot be settled in a shouting match; they will require countless hours of arduous debate and compromise. Perhaps next time we would be better off sitting down together at the table of brotherhood instead of standing on opposite sides of an intersection...
...profit by writing self-pitying accounts of her childhood when President Reagan was in the public eye and she could churn up interest from the media. Now, at a time when he is losing his battle with Alzheimer's, Davis has reinvented herself as the caring daughter, using trite images plucked from some sentimental novel. Next she will be wangling television appearances as an Alzheimer's-patient caregiver. ANNE CAMERON Glendale, Calif...
Importantly, the pieces in “Over–stocked” are crucially interdependent—none make full sense apart from the context of the others. Wing begins the discussion deceitfully, suggesting that the show will be a trite critique of consumer culture. Quickly, though, Mueller and Ryoo dissolve this notion and turn the critical microscope onto art itself. And finally, gracefully, O’Reilly gestures at a resolution. Together, the artists’ work comprises an organism, and any attempt to understand it atomically or deconstructively will be misinformed...
...living room, shouting at the television much like many other fans. Yet I can’t shake the feeling that my father and this year’s Patriots squad were inexplicably tied together. Creating an analogy between a man and a football team may seem trite to some, but much of my father’s happiness was derived from his intense support of Boston professional sports...