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                    [Title] => Stripping clichés down to their naked truth
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It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then, like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.  —Stephen Fry

 

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133905 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1174371 [AuthorName] => Bong R. Osorio [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/2103/jsqe.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1285370 [Title] => Cliché [Summary] =>

The other day, I encountered the “how time flies” clichéd feeling, which landed on me as I began writing this column.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134856 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1249993 [AuthorName] => Dean Andy Bautista [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 449682 [Title] => Port de Cliché [Summary] =>

Does the world really need a remake of Death Wish, and does an actor of Liam Neeson’s caliber have to play the Charles Bronson vigilante? Clint Eastwood, who played the other extrajudicial killer Dirty Harry, already repudiated the sub-genre with his recent Gran Torino.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134078 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1389712 [AuthorName] => Jessica Zafra [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 251242 [Title] => Revisiting business clichés for success [Summary] => Try and try until you succeed. When it rains it pours. To see is to believe. Never say never. We’ve heard and used these expressions so many times. They are oft-repeated utterances that we sometimes ignore, saying enough of those self-help locutions. They are what we call clichés. But here’s the thing: Just because an expression is timeworn, just because it’s conventional wisdom or common knowledge, doesn’t make it any less true or useful. In fact when we come to think of it, clichés have more to offer than what we care to think.
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