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Word: clicheed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the only weak point in the entire 5-minute film comes at the very end, when the undertaker receives a phone call and remarks that "another homeboy [is] coming home." Ending on such cliche terms turns out to be a little anticlimactic, especially when compared with the intensity and...

Author: By Erika L. Guckenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meshing Text and Performance | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

Scott Meyer's gory masterpiece, The Guys' Guide to Guys' Video, also gleefully picks the "inner child" as the pop-psychology cliche to bash the most. However, Meyer's style of writing lacks the camaraderie that "Ralph" and "Reggie" easily form with the reader. (One can't help but imagine...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON SAFF WRITER | Title: Two 'Macho' Views Widen the Gender Gap | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

You've all heard the cliche: the best defense is a good offense. If so, Chris Menick has to be the Ivy League defensive player of the week. Too bad the sophomore running back was already named the offensive player of the week.

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Menick Rushes Into Record Book | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

Cunningham, a basketball Hall of Famer who played on Smith's first Tar Heel team, says, "The most overused cliche in sports might be 'We're a family,' but at North Carolina, the team truly is a family. Coach Smith treats the last guy on the bench the same way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEARS FOR THE TAR HEELS | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

Engineer Lazutkin and Tsibliyev, who returned to Earth last month, face fierce recriminations and quite possibly a stiff fine. Last week VALERY RYUMIN, the Russian head of the Mir shuttle program and the deputy head of Energiya, the firm that built Mir, blamed the cosmonauts for Mir's troubled summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: THE COSMONAUT COMES CLEAN: I'M A MIR MORTAL | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

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