Word: stale
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...case of Chapman, who died in 1989 - with no attempt to trim the overlapping reminiscences. As a result, some of the anecdotes - like the one about the party Chapman threw to come out about his homosexuality and to which he invited his nearest and dearest, including his girlfriend - get stale after the third telling. And it's hard to imagine the show would have lasted four seasons had it been called Bunn, Wackett, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot, since you are fed up before the end of the chapter with reading that it might have been. The saving grace of Autobiography...
...went to the movies, naively, only to find the theater humid and stale. On a Friday at 11 p.m., I found myself in a supermarket on the Champs Elysees. It was packed. We all browsed in slow motion, feigning interest in frozen chicken...
...when lager elbowed aside things like bitters and ale, but you can still find quality niche products." That's good news for Sailer and perhaps a few hundred like him. But for those who can't change with the times, the future looks as inviting as a mug of stale brew...
...investors. They also blow up more often and quietly disappear. As for drilling down into their portfolios, that has always been a good idea--to get a sense of what the fund manager likes to own. Yet with the typical stock-fund-turnover rate of 105%, that information gets stale fast. "There's no substitute for proven management and low expenses," argues Russ Kinnel, director of research at fund tracker Morningstar...
...HUDS can do until the renovations are finally completed is to end the unfair interhouse restrictions and allow all students to eat where they will most enjoy their meals. After all, without good food, Harvard students, like Molière, know that eventually even the finest of words becomes stale...