Word: clicheed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What all this means to anyone watching -- say a child -- is that character no longer is related to destiny. If a community cares only for that sinister cliche the bottom line, then there is no community pressure on individuals to behave fairly and honorably. In a world of bottom lines...
Kyle MacLachlan is outstanding as Jeffrey. With his paperboy face and barely noticeable earring, he meets and hurdles each awful rite of passage with marked confidence. Laura Dern makes for terrific chemistry with MacLachlan; she slow dances and sips Heineken like a runner-up Homecoming Queen and proclaims with detached...
This is the first time in a couple years that a Columbia coach can truthfully utter that cliche, because the last few Lions' squads have been woefully bad.
It is a familiar cliche, of course, that the Third World is trapped between its own traditional cultures and encroaching modernity. Old men driving donkey carts past skyscrapers, turbaned young boys listening to rock 'n' roll songs, etc., etc. During my three weeks in Tunisia, though, I saw how facile...
We can only guess at the psychological effects of names (What happens when that girl Howard reaches an age to be interested in other Howards?), but it seems reasonable to suggest that a boy named John will grow up differently from one named Cuthbert. He is less likely to be...