Word: staled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sheila's batty home lives are presented in such outrageous broad strokes that the credibility of the couple's supposedly sincere romance is under mined. There are a few funny peripheral moments, especially those that focus on the mores of video dating, but there are also stale gags about wayward cars and coitus interruptus. In this context, Altman's allusions to his better films are particularly depressing. Like Nashville, A Perfect Couple features a climactic death, weird minor characters who traipse mysteriously through the action, as well as a lengthy musical score, sung by Sheila...
...There isn't any villain here," says an authoritative Post insider. "Don isn't the villain. Ben didn't get Phil. Meg didn't get Phil." Adds a Post editorial writer: "He was just in a rut. The writers thought he had grown stale. It was a question of getting more zip into things...
After three days of intense hiking and climbing, the 23-year-old geology major was ready to eat a hearty dinner. What he and the other prisoners got instead were three dill pickle spears, a bologna sandwich, re-warmed canned hash, three-day-old stale cake and cold milk. Not allowed to eat any of the food he'd brought in his backpack, Yates eventually went to sleep on a mattress mounted on a steel lathe platform, without sheets...
...this excuse for a movie is a commercial success, it is only because the advance hype, George C. Scott in Hardcore," tittilated the public. The topic may be timely, but its treatment is stale...
Chad Balch '80, an Adams House resident, said he was "very pleased with the quality of food. Things that are stale in other houses are fresh and warm here...