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...Furthermore, Vanderwarker makes even the most familiar, comfortable images of Boston trite. His photographs include the Public Garden in the winter, the Charles River, the grand marble staircase of the Boston Public Library, and Harvard’s very own Sever Hall. Taken in sharp focus, the photographs are intensely colorful. However, this over-saturation of color cheapens the images, making them look like blown-up postcards. The angles and views of the locations are more ‘familiar’ than the sites themselves because they are essentially formulaic. As a result, it is impossible to develop...
...years, Indian security and investigation agencies have had a trite, almost comically knee-jerk explanation for terror attacks - they have been blamed on Islamist fundamentalists aided by "foreign elements," meaning mostly Pakistan and China. Even where the majority of victims have been Muslims - such as the May 2007 blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, the attack on an Indo-Pak train in February 2007 and the April 2006 twin blasts at New Delhi's Jama Masjid - the first murmurs of suspicion have named Islamist groups. Investigation trails in these cases have led nowhere, yet no one has dared...
...international community, Obama must be pragmatic but also remain true to the ideals of political and economic freedoms and human rights that America once helped make into international law. Neither the superpower nor the rest of the world can afford another obtuse administration—it may sound trite, but the stakes are just too high...
There are not always words for these matters of life and death. All the clichés and all the trite slogans about enjoying life never seem true until the moments when we are confronted with life’s end. Sometimes you can’t do anything but hold tighter to what you have in the hope that it will stay in your arms for one more...
...Hollywood, one day you’re up and the next you’re down. Since the world has never heard that one before, this movie is sure to give viewers important insight into the human condition. Or, more likely, it will simply bore them with its trite message. Where Levinson and De Niro so brilliantly portrayed the absurdity of Hollywood’s power in their 1997 collaboration “Wag the Dog,” the same theme—along with De Niro—seems tired and hackneyed in “What Just...