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Word: clicheed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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It's happened so often for this year's rugby club that the very use of the cliche has become cliched.

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Men's Rugby Clinches N.E. Regional Championship Bid | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

So far, so good. Tolins has defined the attitudinal chasm separating gays, who think of themselves as a people with a history and culture, and kindly disposed heterosexuals who think of gays as individual mistakes of nature. But in making the family Jewish, he clutters the argument with a lot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What If Baby Grows Up Gay? | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

As directed by Anthony Minghella, whose mostrecent work is "Truly, Madly, Deeply," Mr.Wonderful" lightly brushes over too manystereotypical scenarios and characters to eversurpass cliche. The movie mentions--thenskirts--Lee's embarassment about their Italianupbringing in the 'neighborhood.' The script alsoleaves William Hurt no opportunity to ressurrecthis character from painful one-dimensionality.Hurt...

Author: By Clarissa A. Bonanno, | Title: Miserable `Wonderful' | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

The cliche contends that the Spanish are a proud and passionate people; Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna hardly strives to dispel the stereotype. After a spot of flogging and rape foreplay, loopy Lope really gets the juices flowing with graphic onstage torture and decapitation. Gorier than "Commando," racier than...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: The Speedy Rise and Fall of Fuente Ovejuna | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

While it is certainly too much to hope that ignoring people like Mansfield and Wasinger will make them go away, another cliche usually applied to immature children does seem apt here: The attention only encourages them.

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Mindless Moralizing | 10/27/1993 | See Source »

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