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Even its soundtrack, which includes Van Morrison, Otis Redding and Little Feat, does not help. The movie's problem is not its dialogue, acting, or production; its problem is a stale subject which hardly shows up even on primetime anymore...

Author: By Gayle BETH Fenster, | Title: Twisted Family Tree | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

This thought is central to The End of Nature, and it represents a highly unusual effort to look at all the ramifications of the global warming problem. Although its flaws are obvious, The End of Nature is as fresh as the endless stream of "end" theories is stale...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Predicting an End to the 'Sweet and Wild Garden' | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...been shrinking. For the past two weeks, Today has led by only 0.4 of a rating point, and it has fallen to second place in the key demographic group of women ages 25 to 54. "There were a lot of people who thought the show was a little stale," says an NBC executive, "and that maybe it's when you're on top that you should do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Exit Jane, Amid Turmoil | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...family is little better. Although they profess to be loving and sensitive, their favorite activity is gorging themselves on ice cream sundaes while forcing me to eat stale and chewy tofu-based ice cream substitutes that taste like dirt. (And I don't like dirt...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Liberty, Equality, Ice Cream | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

What further evidence or impulse could the USSR possibly need? The Poles know, as the Soviets must, that fifty years doesn't make a confession stale or irrelevant. Not irrelevant to the windows of the dead officers. Not to Solidarity, nor even to the Polish communist party, both of which lost potential leaders at Katyn...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: An Unhappy Anniversary | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

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