Word: clicheed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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He was the embodiment of pure intellect, the bumbling professor with the German accent, a comic cliche in a thousand films. Instantly recognizable, like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, Albert Einstein's shaggy-haired visage was as familiar to ordinary people as to the matrons who fluttered about him in...
You almost feel that if the Nobel Prize were conferred on Jacques Derrida, he'd start talking like Bill Cosby on 'Picture Pages.' Laureates become the public faces of literature, and they start acting like publicizers instead of writers and scholars: what results can be something as banal and cliche...
"I guess I'll remember it as more of a character building thing than I probably would've says after my first two years. I think everyone always talks about the things you learn from team sports--discipline, balancing your time, teamwork, working with groups. But I think one of...
If the nanotech guys are right, a call to the family doctor a few decades from now could yield a high-tech variation on an old cliche: "Take two teaspoons of diagnostic sensors, and call me in the morning."
Personally, though, I think that a good deal of "The X-Files" attraction can be attributed to the show's avante garde flair. It's got the same kind of cheesy camp as "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," evidenced by the weekly tagline, "The Truth is Out There," and the...