Word: clicheed
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Could anyone-in Saigon or in the U.S., in the rice fields or in the Pentagon-stand still another coup in South Viet Nam? Obviously, the answer was no. But last week the little country hovering between tragedy and farce produced two coups in one, and any number of others...
If Hickey the hardware salesman peddled illusions in Iceman, Erie Smith (Jason Robards) the gambler is parched for illusions in Hughie. For more years than he dares to remember, he has been playing against the house, and the house is life. Life plays with stacked cards and loaded dice, and...
Haste is the standing excuse of the newsman whose deadline bouts with the typewriter let a cliche or two slip past his careless eye. In an effort to reduce the cliche content of its own copy, the Associated Press, which must cope with haste to a greater degree than most...
In the wake of Univac's report, the A.P. had no immediate comment. But a usually reliable source hailed with guarded optimism the fact that, percentagewise, the A.P. copy came out relatively cliche-clean. Even the first-place winner, "hail," was found only nine times among the 375,000...
Reality v. Romanism. By and large, criticism of the third session's agenda has been in the interest of greater realism rather than Romanism, clarity rather than cliche. Challenging the schema on religious orders last week, Belgium's Leo Josef Cardinal Suenens attacked the "ridiculous complications" of nuns...