Word: clicheed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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And there are two commencement messages that are not yet cliche, but are becoming cliche pretty fast.
This years batch of commencement speeches are like most commencement speeches: cliche, vague, effete, boring. Instead of serving up banal generalizations, I wish they would tell us something we don't know, maybe even drop a political bombshell like the Marshall Plan. They should offer some practical advice or, at...
One of my earliest memories as a child was jumping from rock to rock in a creek near my backyard. Cliche, yes, but true. I wonder how many others remember fishing by a river, swimming in a lake or playing in a creek as a child.
Like most young Americans, Nirvana's leader, Kurt Cobain, sensed the attraction of living out the fantastic myths of his punk heroes. He decoded his simple mission in the booklet for the 1992 compilations album Incesticide. "To pay tribute like an Elvis or Jimi Hendrix impersonator in the tradition of...
In 1992, Cobain expressed his disdain for the glory of rock culture: "...at this point in rock history, Punk Rock (while still sacred to some) is, to me, dead and gone." In 1994, Cobain made himself dead and gone, while overcoming the cliche of accident with the violence of willful...