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With both parents typically holding down jobs, home life had been reduced to a mad scramble at the end of the day to cram in shopping, laundry, cooking, ; mending -- and, oh, yes, communication. Quality time had become a bitter cliche: a concentrated, forced effort to make up for irretrievable moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attitude of the Year: The New Frugality | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

And now a comedy cliche. Nearly 40 years after the scene was first aired -- on Sept. 15, 1952, as the opening episode of I Love Lucy's second season -- it may be the most frequently repeated bit of film in television history. One recent sighting came in October, on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Yet Again, Lucy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

Offense wins games, but defense wins championships says a popular sports cliche. While the Crimson's record does demonstrate a marked lack of offense, its defense has kept the Crimson in all of its matches.

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: W. Spikers Look to Upset Red | 11/8/1991 | See Source »

As a consolation, we now have another architectural event: the Inn at Harvard, so assertively obnoxious that the new Busch-Reisinger looks Gropius-like by comparison. A regular Bulkie Roll of a building with fake balconies and window frames, it spreads to fill a once-welcome open space. It is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Architecture Is Busch-League | 11/6/1991 | See Source »

Of course, an enthusiasm for calligraphy guarantees an artist nothing. For decades, America has been full of bad abstract painting based on Chinese and Japanese ideograms -- it goes with wind-bells and Bay Area Zen. If Marden's work avoids that cliche, it is because of his accommodation with Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lines That Go for a Walk | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

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