Word: staled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paint his way through years of difficulty. The earliest paintings included in the show are a whole room full of small works which look like abstract expressionist paintings, but were executed by building up the surface as much as three inches with spackle. The effect is that of stale cake frosting, limited to three colors -- charcoal, sickly pink, and dirty white -- knifed or squeezed onto the canvas. The paintings suggest parody of the rough, sculptural brush work of De Kooning, at the same time evidencing an interest in the ease with which forms advance from the canvas as well...
This sort of criticism may be unfair, especially in light of Veitch's remarks. "You don't want to get boxed into an image," Veitch said. "Doing the same thing all the time can make you stale...
...Administration where conformity and arrogance appear enshrined, it is not likely that fair and responsive candidates will be seriously considered for the post of dean. Unless Bok earnestly and openly consults liberal Faculty, junior Faculty, and students before making his selection, we are likely to see a dean as stale as his predecessor, and several degrees more bland and petty...
...used frequently by students in their later lives. As a result, the amount of knowledge that our graduates actually retain from their college years is probably much smaller than many of us would like to believe. This problem is compounded in certain fields where information often grows stale and irrelevant or new knowledge steadily overtakes old theories and generalizations. For these reasons, to base a college education simply on the acquisition of information and knowledge is to settle for small stakes indeed...
...unbearable Nevertheless a new prosperity is offering more economic security than Chinese have known in this century. Between the new hotels there are still the one room corrugated tin shacks, but an incredible number of these shacks have sprouted TV antennas. The children and ancient women still desperately peddle stale cigarettes and gum never seeming to sell any-but death by starvation is a rarity in Taiwan gone, but not forgotten...