Word: clicheed
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It has almost become a cliche to say that President Bush's handling of the economy has been atrocious. Almost every economic indicator we can find is either still dropping or increasing only erratically. The end of the second quarter, for example, marked the 13th straight quarter of low growth...
The Year of the Woman may be the most overworked cliche of the 1992 political season. But at this convention, as Clinton put it, the women made up "a league of their own." Mostly on the outside when the men in charge were creating the S&L mess, running up...
Composer Alan Menken won four Oscars for the movies The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast with lyricist Howard Ashman. For the stage, they created Little Shop of Horrors. After Ashman died of AIDS in 1991, Menken tried various collaborators. WEIRD ROMANCE, which opened off-Broadway last week, shows...
Director Tim Burton, whose two stars were among the premiere character actors in the last decade, ended up drawing a real psychological drama from what could have been a cliche. By tracing the evolution of a superhero and his superfoe, Burton gave the viewer real insight into the complexities of...
Carlin is unfairly pigeonholed, however, as a leftover '60s radical. The real targets of his satire are cant and cliche, phoniness and self- righteousness, wherever he finds them. At the beginning of a 1990 HBO concert, he rattled off a list of New Age terms banned from his vocabulary: "I...