Word: clicheed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Night Caller is one of those French films made in envious and inadvertently silly imitation of American crime melodramas. Director Henri Verneuil (The Sicilian Clan) works hard to duplicate every cliche of the genre, from a car chase right down to a breathless pursuit up stairs that wind like...
There aren't easy answers, particularly when each one of us is struggling with individual commitments to his or her education. If I could have done it over again, I would have spent more time talking to people about the things I have said here, if anyone wanted to talk...
That kind of approach works fine for presidential campaign biographies and The Lou Gehrig Story, but it's pretty thin stuff for serious historical scholarship. The result is a tedious, one-dimensional narrative that reveals little about Rayburn the Speaker or Rayburn the man. Steinberg generally hovers at the level...
The Princeton Tigers, three losses in a row, including two straight in the Ivy League which have effectively eliminated them. Nothing to lose, as the old cliche goes, and an inordinate desire to play the spoiler role. Throw in some Princeton pride and a heritage of playing Harvard tough. Very...
It's a cliche. Kubacki says it's a cliche. Curry says it's a cliche. But no one will deny it. "You throw out all the statistics when Dartmouth comes to town."