Word: stale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are other connected issues and problems facing our unsuspecting president, but at least some of them can be relegated to his newly appointed General Counsel, who I hope will introduce a breath of fresh air into the stale and musty Massachusetts Hall. Before the President can even focus his attention on other matters, he must first stop the bleeding on the financial side...
There's the mother of budget travel guides, thirty-three year old, Harvard-produced Let's Go. And then there's "the new kid in town," the Berkeley Guides. Published by Fodor's, the new series is being promoted as the fresh, politically aware, soybean ink alternative to stale musings by Harvard's "snotty little rich kids...
...involved in comparing one artwork with another -- namely, that there are differences of intensity, articulateness, radiance, between works of art; that some speak more convincingly than others; and that this is not a political matter. Fifteen minutes in any room of this sublime exhibition is enough to blow such stale and peevish trivia away. Matisse did much, at the beginning of this century, to dispel the mustiness of academic art. At its end, he may still do the same to the mingy products of end-game academic modernism...
...second spot recalls in lurid terms Gennifer Flowers' allegations about a 12-year love affair. "Get to know Bill Clinton the way Gennifer Flowers did," the voice-over promises viewers who call Brown's phone bank. Callers get 12 minutes of stale talk about sex, draft evasion and marijuana...
...vulnerability is soon masked by another bigoted tirade, never to reappear. More of this kind of complexity could give the play depth and direction when the message and the pointless slapstick begin to get stale...