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The story manages complete a cliche checklist of space movie standards: Personal and heart-warming introduction to the astronauts who are preparing to go to Mars after years of training and personal sacrifice. Check. Crew set to leave, but one guy (whose lifelong dream is to travel to the red...
A former prodigy from New York City who produced his Op. 1, a piano sonata, at 15, Liebermann is one of the New Tonalists, a group of composers who have turned their back on the hard-edged, complicated avant-garde sounds that dominated the American new-music scene after World...
The standards of behavior which Alliance High requires would lead to armed rebellion in the average U.S. school. "We had to run to class," Thairu said. "Jog, trot. Faster than just walking. Our society expects it." For Americans, high school corporal punishment is just a Hollywood cliche of injustice, evil...
"The Beanpot means so much to the whole Harvard hockey community," Mazzoleni said. "From the alumni on down to the community. I know it's a cliche, but you can't place more emphasis on one game than another."
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...