Word: paled
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...EVICTING PALE MALE...
...anti-Bush zingers (put in the mouth, unconvincingly, of her drugged-out street-hustler character Fontaine). Ensler has done a much better job of shaping The Good Body. But that critique of America's obsession with thinness, based on her interviews with women dissatisfied with their bodies, seems a pale follow-up to her 1996 breakthrough, The Vagina Monologues. (The producers have already announced that The Good Body will close in January...
...because sugar does more than sweeten. It also helps batter rise, providing volume and texture; it caramelizes and thus produces that glorious oven-fresh golden-brown color; and it works as a preservative to keep baked goods fresh longer. In contrast, artificial sweeteners have been a recipe for pale, flat, crumbly treats that quickly go stale--and often go uneaten. (See the top 10 bad beverage ideas...
Ancient China, gorgeous outdoor settings, a surreal story line and a mysterious character played by Ziyi Zhang. The elements add up to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but they can also describe Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers, the latest in a series of increasingly pale imitations of Ang Lee’s breakthrough martial-arts ballet. Though Crouching Tiger is in itself part of a long tradition of Hong Kong action cinema, it has inspired a new wave of iterations of the formula, none of which approach the prototype in terms of its poetically minimalist plot, beautiful...
...goes the stereotype, and it’s unfair. Some people were already pale. But however partly true it may be—like all stereotypes, this one includes many morsels of veritas—I was determined not to let this happen to me. I had vague designs on a career in journalism, but no desire to make it the center of my undergraduate life. “I’ll be writing enough in my classes,” I figured. “I’ll take a four year break from journalism, and then...