Word: stale
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...theatricality in the dying days of male monopoly on the English stage. This story is more conventional, rather like “American Beauty” meets “Blackboard Jungle,” but Eyre succeeds in keeping the film engaging where it could have felt stale. “Notes on a Scandal” is up for four Oscars—Dench for Best Actress, Blanchett for Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score, and Best Adapted Screenplay. As good as Dench’s performance is, her odds of winning are anemic, given that Helen Mirren...
...girls school, it is the philosophy that manifests itself in my unusual Valentine’s neutrality. Depending on someone else to determine your enjoyment of something is fruitless. Let’s be serious: Valentine’s Day has kind of screwed itself over. Paper cards, stale candy, and the cheapest flower that money can buy: it’s inherently kind of insulting to receive these things in earnest from someone you’re romantically involved with. But getting a Tonka truck Valentine from your best friend or a yellow carnation with “Please...
...Stale Doughnut Myth "Wall-to-wall Kennedy" [Jan. 22] acknowledged that giggles over John F. Kennedy's "supposed gaffe" "Ich bin ein Berliner!" may not be warranted. Only in western Germany is a jelly doughnut called a Berliner. Here in Berlin a jelly doughnut is a Pfannkuchen. So the ignorant West German journalists misunderstood, as did their American colleagues based in West Germany. The Berliners knew perfectly well Kennedy didn't say, "I am a Pfannkuchen!" but, as he also said, "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin." And they loved him for it. Chris McLarren...
...help these guys when they come home,” she said.The VA itself has been publicly skeptical of the new study, with one of their spokesmen stating to United Press International that the research appeared to be “misleading” and included “stale recommendations.” Bilmes herself was slow to take offense, recognizing that the VA has lately been under pressure from several quarters, including Congress and various other veterans’ organizations. But no matter how the issue is approached, she says, there is no escaping the fallout that...
...young ’uns; in this take on holiday lore, Santa, according to the Orphans’ website is “a man who, after hundreds of years of back breaking public service, has been driven to devour more than just a plate of stale cookies!” Check it out at the Machine Theater (normally a gay nightclub...