Word: staled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact is that while The Tutor has pretensions to both comedy and tragedy, most of the time it flutters droopily at the level of stale melodrama. If there's little genuine humor here, there's even less heartfelt agony. Even the climactic pre-castration scene, replete with lines like "Is it so reprehensible to be human?" and "I pluck out the eye that offends me" is so overdone it falls completely flat. Ralph Martin, as Hasty, the tutor, doesn't help matters any by giving a generally lackluster performance that makes his sudden access of emotion in this sequence seem...
MOTIVATION: My life in suburbia, which had seemed stale for a long time, now seemed absolutely inane. Things were going on, things being done, and I was reluctant to leave where I felt the action was. [Also-and this is the most difficult admission for me to make-I had always been a deeply religious person and attended church. I have a guardian angel theory, and I had felt during the program, and still genuinely feel, that the guardian angel had a purpose for me in being there. Bert (her FBI contact) is a devout Roman Catholic, as is Catherine...
Dark Side of the Moon was not, after all, a typical rock album that grew stale after repeated listening. It was an album whose appeal was slow but steady. With each playing, different complexities of its electronic make-up were revealed, and, as a result, the more one listened, the more one appreciated. It was the multidimensional quality of their music that enabled Pink Floyd to enjoy a two-and-one-half year period of unproductivity. After all, they were financially secure and probably a bit apprehensive about releasing a follow-up to such an unbelievably successful effort. But although...
...kind of rescue Carli had pulled off before, and the strain of dealing with crises apparently left him with a feeling that he had gone stale in his job. Born in the northern Italian city of Brescia, he was educated as an academic economist, but switched to banking when he discovered in 1937 that he could become a professor only by taking the job of a Jew who had been sacked by the Fascists. At the Bank of Italy, Carli learned to shrug off criticism: for a central banker, he once said, "the first quality is to be cold-blooded...
...invented some brilliant plot that they thought was absolutely hysterical. Most people never write that letter or go ahead with that stunning practical joke because the next morning no one understands it very well, and it's even a little embarrassing. Mike Nichols's newest movie, a light-headed, stale farce called The Fortune, could have been born during just such a private all-nighter, at some point when Nichols, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson got so clap-happy that they filmed their ideas on the spot...