Word: stale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who have grown weary of the stale vocabulary still embraced by some feminists may enjoy this book's blunt indictment of the we-are-all-victims mentality. But others may be put off by Roiphe's awkward musings and disturbing flippancy. Feminism thrives on many voices, but The Morning After contributes little to the discourse...
...comparison to the recent debut shows oftelevision veterans Letterman and Chevy Chase,"Conan was a definite improvement. [Letterman andChase's] shows seem so stale," de la Vega added...
...cheered when one spirit got his star-spangled wish, and they applauded at the end. The house was so streaked with humid tears it nearly had to be hosed down. But this movie is a bad cry, for calculation steams off it like skunk musk. It is packed with stale "sure-fire" routines, like the rendition of a rock-'n'-roll oldie (here Walk like a Man) and a funny car crash (which comes a reel or two after the fatal crash -- yikes!). The screenplay's big achievement is to create four people who are already dead and then give...
...three months, a team of bleary-eyed scientists, sociologists and economists was sequestered behind an unmarked door on the 14th floor of the U.S. Bancorp Tower in Portland, Oregon, working 14-hour days, seven days a week, amid a welter of maps, coffee cups and stale pizza. Their mission, direct from the President: explore every conceivable option for preserving the Northwest's ancient forests and its wildlife, while saving whatever can be saved of the once proud and productive timber industry...
...power," says Motoo Shiina, a member of the upper house who just resigned from the L.D.P. "And I am afraid that the real issues, the basic policies that Japan must pursue, might be lost in the struggle." It would not be the first time that a fresh wind blew stale in the corridors of the Diet...