Word: stale
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...crumpled, thumbed-through Glamour is sitting on my coffee table, the same all-teeth smiling model giving anyone and everyone who will look at her that “come hither” stare. But the capriciousness symbolized by my monthly dose of fashion and fornication tips leave a stale taste in my mouth. Reading about boyfriend tips and diet fads—in general my mindless Saturday afternoon activity—has become, to some extent, trite or insipid...
Flowers’ depiction of Kastoria and its inhabitants does no more than tantalize with the smallest whiff of their world. The stale stock characters are callously served in their place. We meet a young man who yearns for adventure, but he leaves us just as he is about to go follow...
...this going around. Sen. Richard Shelby lives on my street and we marveled Tuesday morning about how the street was spilling over with black trash bags. A lot of closets being cleaned out. I told the Senator about my own and how I'd blitzed the kitchen cabinets, tossing stale spices and ancient condiments, and then trimmed the ivy around the windows, which I then washed. "There's a lot of nervous energy around. Gives you a sense of control, doesn't it?" he said climbing in to his newly shined...
...excitement, exhaustion and exultation; flop-sweat and red tempers, endured or even provoked because the participants knew they were creating some-thing wonderful. "Shows were created week after week under conditions of soul - and health - destroying pressure," writes Houseman. "Two simultaneous dramas were infolded each week in the tense, stale air of CBS Studio One: the minor drama of the current show and the major drama of Orson?s titanic struggle to get it on." By Monday afternoon Houseman had written the adaptation and an introduc-tion about the author; Herrmann had composed a score; the actors had their scripts...
...sure sounds like a good idea. Use the superheroes to lure mainstream America into reading the work of the independent artists, while also appealing to the audience of those alternative works. (And perhaps breath some life into stale characters?) Some of the better-known indy "names" included in the project are Eddie Campbell ("From Hell"), Gilbert Hernandez ("Love and Rockets"), Tony Millionaire ("Maakies"), Paul Pope ("Heavy Liquid") and Andi Watson ("Breakfast After Noon"), along with about fifty others. Their collaborations have created an anthology of mostly light-hearted takes on the lives of superheroes...