Word: staled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sheherazade nightclub, the new Metropole Hotel and the Bank of Alexandria are scarred by bomb blasts. We were escorted into this canal-side city by Egyptian officers. They kicked down the door of the former British officers' club and led us through a billiards room where the stale smell of dust and decay hung over the neatly racked cues and a picture of the late President Nasser. The rules of the game of snooker in fine curlicued print hung on the wall. The balcony opened onto a littered street where electric lines dangled from telephone poles...
...Keith McCoy '76 sought but failed to receive CCA endorsement. "They didn't like the fact that I opposed tenure for superintendents," he said recently. In support of his view he argues that school committees should be able to re-evaluate superintendants continually and that administrators get stale if they stay in the same system for too long. McCoy says that high school students should be given a larger role in determining school policy...
Last year I almost escaped the inglorious embarrassment of waking up Sunday morning smelling of stale vomit and strange bathrooms. Harvard came closer, fumbling its way to a 21-21 tie on regional TV. But it wasn't enough to seem like a real change from losing to the Greenies...
...younger McLuhan published an account of meat-dehydration experiments -which showed that small chunks of hamburger lost their moisture at different rates depending on their placement inside a pyramid-others began trying with flowers, fish and eggs. One is also supposed to be able to freshen vegetables, restore stale coffee, ripen hard fruit, mellow cheap wines and make cigarettes taste less harsh...
Beefcake Act. If readers can survive Guccione's pretensions, they will find an impressive list of authors: J.P. Donleavy, Joyce Carol Gates, Tom Wicker, plus an interview with Norman Mailer. The fiction by Donleavy and Oates, however, is thin, and the article by Wicker is merely a stale list of proposed political reforms. Mailer, certainly a timely subject for a probing interview in a women's magazine, was questioned ever so gently by an old friend and sometime associate, Buzz Farber. In fact, only eight of the 23 contributors are women. Even a solid advice article...