Word: triteness
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Knobler comes to Harvard by way of Los Angeles, and he has already noticed a difference of temperament between the two coasts. "Things can be very impersonal here," he says. "No one says, 'Have a nice day.' Some people think that's trite, but with the right tone, the right inflection and speed, it can be important...
...critics have observed many times, the group then stopped trying very hard. Goat's Head Soup (1973), an album not nearly as bad as its reputation, nevertheless contained some very trite songs. It's Only Rock and Roll (1974) picked up that pace but fed more ammunition to those who claimed the Stones had outstayed their welcome. The whole business really hit bottom with Black and Blue, a musical change of course that simply flopped...
...Palace last Wednesday, three communications satellites over the Indian and Atlantic oceans were beaming images of the scene to 750 million viewers in 61 countries, from Sweden to Zambia. For most of the next 7% hours, the air waves crackled with commentary in 34 languages, much of it irritatingly trite. But the pictures were the important thing, and they were riveting...
...experience-what was it like?-is a rare and accidental accomplishment. Television has become something to listen to from the next room. So has television news." Frank scorns "split screens and zooms and star bursts and insets and flip-overs" to give pedestrian words a visual interest, or the trite use of canned "truck shots down the aisles of supermarkets, wheat pouring into a boxcar, a slow zoom into the Capitol dome." He sighs for a past day when the camera was not so much the servant of the word...
Preoccupied with the idiosyncratic, conversational--and often trite--surfaces of Fielder's life. Dickson fails to explore or even notice those contradictions which could have been springboards for a sensitive look at the musician's character. At different points. Dickson describes Fiedler as either a cold father or a beaming one. He usually adhered to a renowned stinginess yet would fly discreetly to New York to give a benefit concert out of his own pocket. Likewise, near the book's end Dickson glosses over another probing question, raised in an observation by a Boston Symphony Orchestra friend...