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...Undergrads’” biggest failure is that it relies on college stereotypes so stale that most middle school students will be tempted to tune out. “Daria” can be appreciated by anyone, but perhaps the greatest reason for the show’s success is that it only becomes funnier if one is immersed in high school life and the paradoxes that are so fundamentally a part of it. But instead of digging for the deeper comic ironies inherent in dorm life, “Undergrads” is content to recycle...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Can I Graduate? MTV Unleashes Its New Animated Series | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...have a bag of stale peanuts. I wasn't ever planning on eating them...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roving Reporter | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...Stale fruit and stale cereal...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roving Reporter | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

Having once riled Mayor Rudolph Giuliani with the "Sensation" show, the Brooklyn Museum has done it again with Renee Cox's Yo Mama's Last Supper, in which Cox features herself naked in the place of Christ. It's all just so much stale postmodern show biz, slick and corny at the same time. Don't let it divert you from Bob Greene's hot shots of Papua New Guinea or Beuford Smith's Hip-Hop poster series, highlights in an otherwise benign but mostly unremarkable show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Committed To The Image: Contemporary Black Photographers | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...Then Tuesday arrived, and I watched bleary-eyed celebrities read the nominations on live television, and my hope crumbled like stale popcorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Complainer | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

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