Word: clicheed
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When he arrived in Boston for a three week engagement at the Cafe Yana, he was excited about a new approach to his blues guitar solos. Instead of conceiving a melodic line as a unit, he now lets each individual note lead him to an unrehearsed next note. This, he...
It has become a notorious commonplace to say that in Ivy League sports "anything can happen," but the cliche has rarely been more strikingly illustrated than by this season's scintillating Ivy basketball race.
What vitiates Perelman's wit is over-specialization. He has always been a deftly ironic autopsist of what is dead in language. But he is a coroner more of the written than the spoken cliche, so that The Beauty Part sounds as if it were printed on the stage...
The cocktail-party bore who laces his chatter with the tiresome cliche about "crazy, mixed-up women" has more medical science on his side than he knows-and more than medical scientists themselves have recognized until recently. Even normal women, it appears, are mixtures of two different types of cells...
Only Sprocket Holes. Stevens made Shane, too. deliberately including every major cliche of the oater: cattlemen v. sodbusters, gunfighters out of nowhere, a funeral, a Fourth of July party. Stevens found under each cliche its root truth as a primal element of life on the range, turning what could have...