Word: stale
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...obtuse rhetoric about adolescent moodiness was insulting to a large portion of today's youth, myself included. Many American teenagers are well-informed, intelligent citizens, and it's inappropriate to describe us as immoderate and out of control. Characterizing teen behavior as "exasperating" simply reflects stale stereotypes that harm the reputation of an entire age group. It is inadequate to dismiss adolescent angst as the result of structural changes in the physiology of the brain. JIM FIELDS Mountain View, Calif...
...with roommates in a highly animated and engaged way for hours on end (is Jessica Simpson just playing dumb?), taking delight in Brain Break as the unabashed highlight of an otherwise frustrating night staring at a blank screen and a blinking cursor (who knew PB&J on stale white bread could taste so good, or sustain interest for so long...
Planned by Disney as a blockbuster epic, The Alamo is instead arriving in theaters with a whiff of stale cheese about it. Doleful stories of the project--directors and writers hired and dropped, the budget cut and restored, the story rearranged during editing--could land the film on the junk heap of historical movies. (Remember Al Pacino in his 1776 saga, Revolution? Neither does anyone else.) But, in fact, The Alamo deserves a fate better than oblivion...
...time President Derek C. Bok and Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky took office in 1971 and 1973 respectively, the Lowell curriculum had grown stale, and the two oversaw a review which resulted in the implementation of the Core...
...chapter in the ongoing love affair between Americans and their television sets," says Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for NPD Techworld. The romance had been getting a little stale. Even as the number of channels has multiplied, the market for TV sets has been stagnant, at about 2.4 TVs per household, for years. Now those pricey, sexy flat-screens are steadily replacing bulky conventional televisions. Unemployment be damned, Americans are trading...