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...anyway--most of those people like a good fight as much as you do. Then you'll know yourself well enough to know what you really want out of life, and you'll know others well enough to make them give it to you. These may sound like the tritest of truisms, but we Harvard students disobey conventional wisdom like the producers of "Battlefield Earth." Take my advice, half-pints, and in the future you'll do just fine...
Nora finally knows she has found a home in this unlikely suburb when Billy, who has been terrorized by the meanest third-grade bullies in modern literature, makes the Little League baseball team. It would be the tritest of endings if it did not, like every word in this stirring, stunning novel, ring absolutely true...
...WORK hyped as a "degenerate film with dignity" might be expected to lack that very quality. And a work which insistently echoes the tritest of cliches--"Nothing pure, old, sport, is ever that simple," or "Do you continue or vanish into the mists of self?"--would seem to be courting ridicule and criticism. Yet despite its inauspicious underpinnings, Inserts manages to transcend a mediocre script to reveal a powerful cinematic drama. Director-writer John Byrum, shooting on a three-week schedule and a minimal budget, has done what all the hotshots for the American Film Theater in many dull...
...told us by the narrator. The narrator has no personality. His presence is obstrusive--sometimes only his comments make sense out of a scene, and his voice has the all-knowing tone of the unctuous omniscient author. Bur he doesn't offer omniscience--only a combination of the tritest of truisms ("A young man's heart is...") and the most basic information ("A year later they were married.") The voice is Michael Hordern's and he sounds a lot like the late Edward Everett Horton narrating Fractured Fairy Tales early Saturday morning...
Commencement cliches, like their Fourth of July counterparts, deserve a certain affection: they express a deep desire for ceremony and remembrance. Behind the tritest phrase, there is sometimes a desperate attempt to reach across the unbridgeable gap and tell the young what age and experience have taught. In that sense Polonius was the model commencement speaker ("To thine own self be true...