Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many issues, like the issue of Reevaluation Committee membership, are pushed by Beys into the false dichotomy of "new energy" versus everything else. The real problems are often more trite or simple than that: a small group of council insiders continues to control...
...statement reveals the tired and trite claim by anti affirmative actionists, who argue that standards are lowered in order to accomodate "less qualified" Black students at schools like Harvard. Further, it calls into question his ability to fairly and objectively evaluate the performance of Black students in his classes...
THEATER Broadway stars can't save a trite melodrama...
While the race movie movement was dead as a systematic and continuous source of Black cinema, occasional isolated independent films would attack the social constructs so easily skated over by the integrated-but-trite Hollywood fodder. Cinema V put out "Nothing But a Man" (1963), starring Ivan Dixon (of Hongan's Heroes fame) and Abbey Lincoln, a film portraying the difficulties of family life in the segregated South. The well-developed characters showed that stories about African-Americans could be done without reducing the complexity of their lives to easy formulas. As the glitter-ridden elevator-shoed '70s dawned...
...times, however, both the actors and the writer overdo it. The second half of the play, though full of slapdash action, is woefully short on the humor that characterizes the first. When Sonnenschein's script puts trite psychobabble into the mouths of these Tulsa bowling enthusiasts, the effect is unconvincing...