Word: clicheed
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And there are two commencement messages that are not yet cliche, but are becoming cliche pretty fast.
One of my earliest memories as a child was jumping from rock to rock in a creek near my backyard. Cliche, yes, but true. I wonder how many others remember fishing by a river, swimming in a lake or playing in a creek as a child.
Like most young Americans, Nirvana's leader, Kurt Cobain, sensed the attraction of living out the fantastic myths of his punk heroes. He decoded his simple mission in the booklet for the 1992 compilations album Incesticide. "To pay tribute like an Elvis or Jimi Hendrix impersonator in the tradition of...
In 1992, Cobain expressed his disdain for the glory of rock culture: "...at this point in rock history, Punk Rock (while still sacred to some) is, to me, dead and gone." In 1994, Cobain made himself dead and gone, while overcoming the cliche of accident with the violence of willful...
His spirit is especially infectious to actors. Take Meryl Streep, for instance. In the early passages she's obliged to play a woman half her age, and one blessed with precognitive powers too. Later on, she turns up as a ghost. But she just sails gloriously through both incarnations, utterly...