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...release? But actually, weren’t these people really asking for democracy?…And suddenly I had a revelation, a moment of enlightenment: We were fighting for freedom, we were fighting for democracy.” Matapari’s teary-eyed enlightenment is so obviously trite and staged, one can only hope that it sounded more sophisticated in the French original...
...stereotypes of African Americans and Caucasians [ESSAY, March 26]. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Funderburg actually attributed her "love of watermelon, fried foods" to her African-American ancestry and her "taste for soy milk, vanilla flavored" to her Caucasian side. Why would she connect such hackneyed, trite and superficial traits to her beautiful heritage? What about a strong sense of pride, survival or reflection? A person with the benefit of two amazing cultural heritages should describe the experience without using generalizations that are the staple of TV sitcoms. EVANGELOS J. DUKOFSKY New York City...
...ability to identify inattentive students was not something the faculty considered—it was the students who worried about this, not us,” he wrote. “It sounds trite, but it really does seem to be true that the faculty are much more interested in identifying good students for positive interactions than in finding out bad students for negative interactions...
Like its drama-inflected ancestor Sports Night, The Job incorporates elements that would be trite on a plain-old drama, such as the shaky, handheld camera. But here they're starkly funny and McNeil an arresting (sorry) puzzle. He's also the sort of character who makes network execs pop Mylanta as he pops pills. So Leary and Tolan were surprised when ABC actively recruited them. "We said, 'You'll never buy it,'" recalls Leary. "'We're not going to change the language. We're not going to change the behavior.' And they said, 'Don't worry about it.'" Indeed...
...printmaking is of such high quality that the footsteps and the tracks of the cart Firth was pulling his camera equipment in can be seen snaking through the photograph. In spite of these few photographs made with great artistry, most of the images in display seem to be staged, trite, commercialized depictions of the Middle East...