Word: clicheed
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Even so, their performance is witness to the truth of John F. Kennedy's famous cliche: "Life is unfair." The unfairness, in the case of Charles and Diana, lies in the fact that classically, it is their children who must pay so much of the price for the silly lives...
It hardly takes a journalistic genius to figure out that the 1996 Olympic Games deserve special treatment. This summer marks 100 years since competitors from 13 countries met in Athens to revive an athletic tradition dating back to ancient Greece, and such a milestone obviously cries out for recognition. But...
And finally, though it's a cliche, there are the people. I have friends doing ground-breaking scientific research, travelling to distant lands to save the world and touring with major orchestras.
Worse, when action is never shown to have deadly or pitiable consequences, it tends toward abstraction. Pretty soon you're not tornado watching, you're special-effects watching. These are, to be sure, excellent, a seamless blend of digital wizardry and mechanical stunts supervised by the masterful John Frazier. Excellent...
"We have out work cut out for us," Walsh said. "We just have to take one game at a time. I know that's an old baseball cliche, but it's true, especially in a situation like this."