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Perhaps the only weak point in the entire 5-minute film comes at the very end, when the undertaker receives a phone call and remarks that "another homeboy [is] coming home." Ending on such cliche terms turns out to be a little anticlimactic, especially when compared with the intensity and...

Author: By Erika L. Guckenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meshing Text and Performance | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

You've all heard the cliche: the best defense is a good offense. If so, Chris Menick has to be the Ivy League defensive player of the week. Too bad the sophomore running back was already named the offensive player of the week.

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Menick Rushes Into Record Book | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

Cunningham, a basketball Hall of Famer who played on Smith's first Tar Heel team, says, "The most overused cliche in sports might be 'We're a family,' but at North Carolina, the team truly is a family. Coach Smith treats the last guy on the bench the same way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEARS FOR THE TAR HEELS | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

But then we saw in her too some larger allegory. She mirrored our personal anxieties, and the perennial anxieties of the young--for it is hard to believe she was 36 years old. She was truly a cliche of the age itself. Much of the angst of this troubled fin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NAUGHTY GIRL NEXT DOOR | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

Engineer Lazutkin and Tsibliyev, who returned to Earth last month, face fierce recriminations and quite possibly a stiff fine. Last week VALERY RYUMIN, the Russian head of the Mir shuttle program and the deputy head of Energiya, the firm that built Mir, blamed the cosmonauts for Mir's troubled summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: THE COSMONAUT COMES CLEAN: I'M A MIR MORTAL | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

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