Word: staled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comedy classic, but the result is as flat as a Quarter Pounder without the cheese. The excuse for a plot, the erstwhile roommates' road trip through California en route to their children's wedding, can't support the lack of the genuine humor that characterized the original. And the stale performances make this movie about as palatable as New Coke. --Elizabeth A. Murphy...
Pforzheimer House Committee, however, is actively working to dispel its premed House label. In post-randomization Pfo-Ho, "there are other concentrations that can co-exist," said Ali J.Q. Satvat '99, vice president of the Pforzheimer House Committee, who described the House's pre-randomization stereotype as "dry, stale and devoid of character...
...Coach of the Year. Not only was there no reporter present at the event on March 21, but even the post-fact report in The Crimson ran only on April 2. Accounting for Spring Break, this was still an unnecessary four-day delay during which the news had become stale and interest had already subsided...
...then, the South Park phenomenon is a benign one. Nevertheless, there is a problem: while the show has many virtues, it should be smarter and more surprising. It's a pretty stale idea now to think that Streisand and David Hasselhoff and MacGyver are instant punch lines, and in general Parker and Stone express too much fascination with cheesy pop culture, a subject whose interest has been exhausted. As for their "satire," is it really so very clever to give Jesus a public-access show? Were not stoned sophomores dreaming up this sort of thing 20 years ago? Most troubling...
...Cream Bash atmosphere of Grafton has gotten stale, head toward Winthrop Street and find a place that truly merits its name. In fact, everything from the tablecloths to the Blues Brothers poster and the server's nail polish is blue...