Word: staled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that smoking is not addictive and his perhaps subconscious plagiarism of Phillip Morris' ad campaign in Europe, which argues that passive smoke is less harmful than a glass of whole milk a day. This went over O.K. in Kentucky tobacco country but hovered over him like a cloud of stale smoke last week as he campaigned in California, which has some of the most draconian antismoking laws in the nation. At each stop, starting in Walnut Creek, Dole was trailed by a person dressed as a cigarette, dubbed Buttman, who handed out large dollar bills picturing "Smokin' Bob" with...
...musicians to reinvent their work (rapper Busta Rhymes' single for his amusingly crazy song Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check contains three remixes of the main track), redo the songs of their idols (the Brit pop group Oasis, often accused of ripping off the Beatles, offers up a stale cover of I Am the Walrus on the single for its song Wonderwall) or perform out-of-character material (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony sweetly sing one of its hard-core rap songs on its single Tha Crossroads). Natalie Merchant, whose enchanting album Tigerlily spawned three successful singles, says "songs should...
That's not Engel's fault. Old, stale, dead material is inherent to the play. Engel's solution effectively takes the edge off this problem. It makes the audience more receptive listeners--somewhat like Dante in Hell, bearing witness to final testimonials and recriminations. But unlike Dante, Masters was fond of his kin; no one is damned. The audience is asked not to judge folk for their failings but to pay attention to the actors' performances and deft versatility. Engel makes acting an integral factor in how memory is constructed...
...press and disclosed to investors in the Circle K prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. TIME also alleges that the purchase of slow-moving inventory from Chaumet, one of our operating companies, by another company, Lausanne Investments, was somehow improper. In fact, such bulk sales of stale merchandise for subsequent liquidation, the intention of which is to avoid disrupting the core business, is a standard practice in the jewelry industry. Both companies are owned by the same shareholders, who were all fully informed of the inventory-liquidation program. By publishing this ill-conceived article, Time has done both...
...plot does not draw one in. Even when the audience learns the identity of the murderer, the climax of the play, there seems no suspense because there is no logical reason for his (or her) guilt. There are no clues, no plot progression or twists. The line are stale and occasionally incoherent, tangential to strang degrees. When Marge delivers a line about the British Royal Army in the context of health inspection, no one laughs because no one understands what she is talking about...