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A little-discussed consequence of the pending calendar turn is the impact it is likely to have on one of the more hackneyed journalistic traditions: the year-in-review survey.
The right-wing polemicist's biography is accused of idolizing the Gipper and lacking "intellectual honesty" (Claude Marx, the Washington Post Book World ). In the New York Times Book Review , Richard Berke says the book retells hackneyed anecdotes and is not "particularly revealing about what drove him."
Any sure thing attracts too many hackneyed ideas, like Wolff's, and too much foolish money.
from the enchanted, irradiated island of childhood" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Critics appreciate its avoidance of hackneyed gender politics, and its presentation of the boy's colorful, cartoonlike fantasies.
It's "what happens when too many mystics attend a Hollywood pitch meeting" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics also dislike the hackneyed plot twists and "embarrassingly silly dialogue" (Emanuel Levy, Variety ). They find Washington his usual charming self, but some reviewers wonder why his characters never have romantic relations with white women.