Word: cliches
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...always scared when I fight. Fear is very important because it helps me stay alert and focus on defense, which is more important than offense. A good boxer protects himself first and strikes second. Why do you think people consider boxers stupid? It's just one of those clichés - like all models are bimbos or all politicians corrupt. I've met plenty of smart boxers in my life, and I plan to do everything I can to change the stereotype. Bringing chess into the ring is a start in that direction. Who are the boxers you'd most...
...hungry, and his desire to make something of himself is as inspiring as the first Rocky movie. 8 Mile's title track is also about breaking through. Eminem spits an astonishing 1,100 words in 8 Mile's six minutes, and though some of them are film clichés - "Sorry Mama, I'm grown/ I must travel alone/ Ain't gonna follow no footsteps, I'm making my own" - it's still a powerful song. The music on both tracks (produced by Eminem) is intentionally simple. Three guitar chords, a few keyboard tinkles and the snap of a snare...
...documenting the American wilderness, turning its craggy features into monumental images. Confronted by Thunderstorm over the Great Plains, near Cimarron, New Mexico (1961), the eye looks automatically for an Arizona Highways magazine caption featuring the words "grandeur," "majesty" and "awe." But if these landscapes became national treasures verging on cliché, it is thanks partly to Adams' dedication and activism...
...Williamson's characters are absurdly weak. Loren's comments on her sexual acquiescences are restricted to "I enjoyed it" or "That was the most humiliating thing I've ever done." Her arguments with long-suffering husband Gerry are crudely drawn, seeming artificial and superficial. Worst of all is the cliché of the Jewish businessman Manny - a grotesque caricature of a vicious money-maker with a predilection for extramarital anal sex. Political correctness speaking? Not when Manny and his wife are so obviously "played Jewish" by Michael Lerner and Debora Weston. Much has been made in the British media...
...Russia were also hit by the tariffs.) Even British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who never met an American President he didn't like, howled at the "unacceptable and wrong" measures. European Union trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy resorted, as Europeans so often do when the Americans baffle them, to cowboy clichés. "The world steel market is not the Wild West where everyone can do as he pleases," he said. "There are rules...