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Word: clicheed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus What's Up Doc? It is Bogdanovich's homage to Hollywood, imitation screwball comedy that tries to distill forty years of American farce into ninety minutes. The acknowledged model is Hawks's Bringing Up Baby, but influence, allusion and satire run infinitely wider--from D.W. Griffith to Bugs Bunny...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: The Last Screwball Comedy Show | 4/26/1972 | See Source »

In his State of the Union message, Richard Nixon only echoed what became a national clicheé moments after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon 2½ years ago. Said the President: "A nation that can send three people across 240,000 miles of space to the moon should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: In Defense of Technology | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

Hard Choices. Nixon has not yet shed his fondness of hyperbole. He contended that recent changes in world monetary and trade policies meant that "we stand today at a turning point in the history of our country-and the history of our planet." He still falls into clicheé. "Surveying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Politics of a Nonpolitical Speech | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

Rather than a contrived situation comedy that gets its laughs making fun of people losing at life, The Me Nobody Knows is an ingenuous comedy of the vernacular that succeeds because of its preciseness without ever having to sacrifice its dignity. The problem is the inherent pretentiousness of the play...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: The Me Nobody Knows | 1/14/1972 | See Source »

The new button-downer boasts longer, narrower collar points, is cut more slimly and patterned more vividly than the old standbys. The new shirt is designed, in fact, to go with the fashionably tailored men's suits of recent vintage. But no one expects the button-down to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Back to the Button-Down | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

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