Word: staled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tables are simple, black and round, the chairs traditional wood. Pretentious, no; classy, yes. The Victorian shelves that line the walls are adorned with all sorts of chatzchkes. cookie jars, old-fashioned scales, basket, and copper kettles make for interesting conversation pieces when coffee-talk goes stale. Merriam's sister Susan, a graduate student at Harvard, created the soft-colored paintings that hang on the walls, complementing the tranquil effect generated by the blue-green, cream and white decor of the small interior. One simply feels content sitting among the friendly and sociable clientele, many of whom are regulars...
...council is left to issues which can only be described as insignificantly autoerotic, at least from the viewpoint of the common undergraduate: constitutional reform (but who cares?), member expulsions and the provision of circuses. These are the issues that sustain the council and give it life, like pumping stale sugar water into a half-dead body to keep it alive...
...little Clint Eastwood (actor-director), a dash of Gene Kelly (imaginative choreographer), a bit of Jim Carrey (rubbery ham) and a lot of the silent-movie clowns: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Says Chan fan Sylvester Stallone: "Jackie has elongated a genre that had grown pretty stale. He's infused films with humor and character-driven story while giving audiences these extraordinary stunts that are unparalleled anywhere in the world...
...with the stale, in with the brash...
...rotation in the third year of the rotation gets very old and stale for the two individuals they're frustrated because they all want to play more." Tomassoni says. "In a funny kind of way we may be stronger in goal without the two of them...