Word: clicheed
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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...
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...
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.
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...
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...