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...staged a grueling series of hearings on public education in all 75 Arkansas counties. She spent long evenings drinking stale coffee in overheated cafeterias while participants trooped to the microphone to offer their views and occasional insults (she was once called "lower than a snake's belly"). Known to click a ball-point pen if someone was belaboring the obvious, she sometimes resorted to setting a timer at five minutes to keep the meetings moving. As the deadline approached, Mrs. Clinton drove the meetings from 6 p.m. Friday until late Sunday afternoon. When she presented the findings to a special...
BOSTON--Boston College was doomed as soon as Rene Rancourt bellowed out the last note of the national anthem into the stale Garden...
Contention was not in the spirit of the evening, however. Interspersed with friendly reminders regarding how to keep munchies from going stale, Maimonis initiated a few party games to entertain the masses...
...head off. But when I saw the whole script, I thought, dear God, how am I going to do this? It's so emotional, all these amazing ups and downs. So I decided: I've got to learn it as best I can -- but not so much it's stale -- and pick up on Neil's direction. It's walking into situations blind, but that happens in life, doesn...
...worst comes first. A medley all too aptly titled Schtick is stale, botched Broadway, except for a fleeting, funny solo for Baryshnikov composed of stock classical-ballet flourishes. This kind of parody is familiar, but Tharp wisely keeps it light and witty. The heart of the evening is a suite for the two stars set to Pergolesi -- dreamy, deeply musical, full of surprising yet harmonious moves. In a zippy finale, the stars cavort, and six fine young backup dancers finally get to strut some very flashy stuff...