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...acts. Hall makes it clear in "Something in 4/4 Time" that he would have no part in the disco phenomenon. We hear a tale of a woman who is heading for disaster because she cannot reason anything out by herself; meanwhile, the one thing which she can comprehend, a trite pop melody with a rather standard beat, ironically carries the structure of Hall's sermon...
...GLORY, that trite "thrill of victory," is indeed rewarding. but in the Ivy League, and here at Harvard, the cost of such glory has risen dramatically; and, as seems fashionable these days, the price just keeps climbing. Unfortunately, the Harvard leadership has taken the same type of approach to athletics as Jimmy Carter has taken to the economy: a sort of wide-eyed, respectfully distressed puzzlement, one that lacks any true definition of action and invites an accompanying rampage of rising costs...
...story of such world-ranging pathos as Transit of Venus might be expected to lapse into the trite romantic-melodrama that fills airport book racks. But Hazzard errs infrequently. She makes sentimental slips in directing the plot; but they remain only minor errors, like those of other great writers, short detours from her delicate discipline...
Terry is demonically possessed by an internal critic, bears not a monkey but John Simon on his back, constantly rasping, "Trite, trite, done already." His phobia for the commonplace, his obsession with originality, keep him not only from writing but even from talking or living without wondering whether it's all been seen on some stage before. His friends have to be Holvard Solness and Miss Julies and when they can't, when he sees them as "cardboard characters" and "cartoons," and their "soap talk" as unsuitable dialogue, he abandons them, forgetting that the stuff of everyday life must...
...caricatures in real life!" Fosse would probably cry. But so are a lot of people, and it's the artist's responsibility to uncover the quivering jelly of humanity beneath.) Gideon's sexual relationships are adolescent and trivial; his steadiest girlfriend (Ann Reinking) is a good dancer and very trite. "I just want to love you," she tells Gideon, a line which has probably been uttered millions of times in millions of bedrooms and you've probably uttered it yourself; but when that's all there is to a principal character in a movie it's dull...