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Anyone who has ever said that dinner is the most unappetizing meal served by the Harvard University Dining Service obviously never gets up in time for breakfast. Large hunks of eggs of dubious backgrounds. Noodles laden with fat and other unappetizing substances. Stale peach muffins. Hash browns hashed beyond recognition. Maypo (whatever that...
Those who have grown weary of the stale vocabulary still embraced by some feminists may enjoy this book's blunt indictment of the we-are-all-victims mentality. But others may be put off by Roiphe's awkward musings and disturbing flippancy. Feminism thrives on many voices, but The Morning After contributes little to the discourse...
...comparison to the recent debut shows oftelevision veterans Letterman and Chevy Chase,"Conan was a definite improvement. [Letterman andChase's] shows seem so stale," de la Vega added...
...cheered when one spirit got his star-spangled wish, and they applauded at the end. The house was so streaked with humid tears it nearly had to be hosed down. But this movie is a bad cry, for calculation steams off it like skunk musk. It is packed with stale "sure-fire" routines, like the rendition of a rock-'n'-roll oldie (here Walk like a Man) and a funny car crash (which comes a reel or two after the fatal crash -- yikes!). The screenplay's big achievement is to create four people who are already dead and then give...
...three months, a team of bleary-eyed scientists, sociologists and economists was sequestered behind an unmarked door on the 14th floor of the U.S. Bancorp Tower in Portland, Oregon, working 14-hour days, seven days a week, amid a welter of maps, coffee cups and stale pizza. Their mission, direct from the President: explore every conceivable option for preserving the Northwest's ancient forests and its wildlife, while saving whatever can be saved of the once proud and productive timber industry...