Word: clicheed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Not only is the plot of Dog Days a total cliche--it ends sappily ever after when Reilly, the yuppie boy, realizes love can somehow outweigh money--the characters are stereotyped to the point of offending. Throughout the novel, all the Italians living in Reilly's North End neighborhood are...
And I did, Like a cliche. But the heaviest chain strapping down my thought was shattered only after sophomore year, and not at college. It was coming home to the motherland, and presenting the new me to Mama.
Usually when a comedian speaks with great seriousness about his art, he is either being totally insincere or has fallen victim to a modern cliche, the clown who's laughing on the outside and thinking on the inside. In the case of Shandling, though, the sentiments seem both authentic and...
"You know what blew my mind more than anything else?" he asks, chuckling. "They had that book The Artist's Way in there, and on the side was stamped L.A. COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT. It just seemed so funny." Downey read whatever friends sent him: a biography of early BBC...
What comes to mind when an Islamic fundamentalist turns up in the news? Egyptian soldiers assassinating Anwar Sadat? A Palestinian suicide bomber blowing up an Israeli market? In an age when Islamic fundamentalism has become a cliche associated with gruesome acts of terrorism, one image that usually does not spring...