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Word: clicheed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bert Lance is proof of the old cliche "with friends like this, who needs enemies?" Wasn't Bert Lance intelligent enough to know what he was doing to his friend President Carter?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1977 | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

The opening 15 minutes of Dirty Hands reek of a doomed cliche: each scene serves up all-too-familiar cinema staples. The film begins with an apparently innocuous shot of a handsome man in his 20s going about the business of guiding his airborne kite, an activity which conveniently lands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whose Hands Are Dirty? | 10/5/1977 | See Source »

November 10. 1975--Davenport had more momentum on his side than the cliche dreamed possible. He completed six of nine passes for 73 yards and one touchdown in this short period, and made a heretofore impenetrable Princeton defense look rather shabby. Davenport's heroics, however, came after 45 minutes of...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Timmy, We Hardly Knew Ye | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

Only after Bruce's death did popular wisdom recognize the importance of what he had been doing. Before that time, newspapers had often dismissed him as "dirty Lenny" the "sick comedian." But a generation that never really knew him came, in the late '60s, to view him as a great...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Comedian Of Darkness | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

Director Dick Richards never dwells on any one cliche for long, and he moves the gory battle scenes along positively briskly. March or Die manages a fairly business-like air. But its limitation as well as its achievement is that it faithfully re-creates the sand-blown Legion epics of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Instant Late Show | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

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