Word: staled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Evolve is something much of the industry has failed to do. Piracy, video and aggressive foreign competition eroded the market for the city's movies, while its once kinetic style grew stale. Yet even as Hong Kong struggles through creative and financial doldrums, Chinese-language cinema is poised to take off?as the increasingly mainland-oriented Hong Kong International Film Festival will demonstrate when it opens this week. Chinese films like Hero and House of Flying Daggers have earned world-class box office, while the gradual liberalization of the mainland market means the demand for Chinese-language movies is only...
With the arrival of this titillating culinary experience comes an alarming realization: there is a shocking lack of vending machine diversity on the Harvard campus. While other universities enjoy their personal pizzas and vacuum delivered ice creams, Harvard students are left with stale pretzels and flat Cherry Coke. Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper exists, but we aren’t tasting...
...Palmer-Dixon Tennis Courts are housed in a shapeless edifice that squats like a military barracks between Dillon Fieldhouse and Jordan Field. One could imagine the building playing home to a stable of dusty, spider-webbed tractors. Or a collection of iron pipes. The expanse is imposing, stale, and very wide. So wide that it can fit a baseball team—32 players, three coaches, bats, balls, and a batting cage. Barely...
It’s not blindingly original music, to be sure. Some of the songs played could pass for innovative pastiches of several recent 80s-inflected rockers. But Longwave never sounded stale or tired, with melodic strength and dead-on chops that belied their eager, easygoing vibe...
...guess everyone’s prone to getting a little stale after a while,” Lederman said. “The game sitting out and watching and just taking mental notes for myself—I think that helped...