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Word: clicheed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS YEAR'S installment of America's oldest ongoing response to Kabuki featured the usual raft of pretty boys in leotards, tennis-ball halves and wigs, playing pretty girls with puns instead of names ("Jemima Fysmoke," "Cybil Service"), whose stock-in-trade is the Big Pun ("You made an asteroid...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: The 130th Clone | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

That may have been Reid's idea when he set out to write The Offering, but somewhere along the way he got lost. Instead of a powerful tale of emotional and cultural conflict, Reid has written an extraordinarily convoluted and cliche-ridden spy story, replete with stoic federal agents, femmes...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Broken Dreams and Kneecaps | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

Ever felt tempted on a snowy day to throw back your head and drink in some of those pure white flakes? Try to resist the impulse. After testing samples of snow from several Kansas City areas, Research Chemist David Roberts, a specialist in heavy-metal poisoning, discovered amounts of lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Snow Warning | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

The title of the song is the real snapper, an old tough-guy cliche flipped around and twisted like a blade ?Only the Good Die Young.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Brash Ballad of Billy Joel | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

If ever the cliche about victory being a team effort fit, this was the game. Minus the very large presence of center Brian Banks--who will sit out January to do coursework--Harvard's basketball team took to the Northeastern hardwood last night and turned in its best showing of...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Icemen, Cagers Bag Three-Point Wins | 1/4/1978 | See Source »

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