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...life of TV comedians is hazardous -and usually brief. But in his rueful, often incoherent way, Buddy is not worried about going stale. For the moment, Liebman's Stanley is just a shiny new toy. Says Buddy, a sad, mad glint lighting up his beady brown eyes: "I don't expect nuttin' from nobody...
Ready told the councilors that he had transferred Cosgrove because the sergeant "had gone stale on his job" as head of the Crime Prevention Bureau and had besides asked to be "moved downstairs...
...student from Kingston, N.Y. struck the French capital in 1796, when Jacques-Louis David and his neoclassic followers were preparing the stage for Napoleon's posturings. Trapped in the doctrinaire icebox of neoclassicism, Vanderlyn conscientiously set about acquiring its basic asset: figure drawing. He also acquired its defects: stale colors and chill poses...
...Candidates Stevenson and Kefauver. Four years ago, recalled Miami News Columnist Bill Baggs, Stevenson "reminded many people of Woodrow Wilson. Not a few of the same people today say he reminds them of a man trying to remind them of Woodrow Wilson." Kefauver's act has gone equally stale. Wrote Baggs: "There is nothing special in shaking [his] hand any more. Everyone in the state has done it." Result: "We find there is more interest in the constable race in District Three than in the Stevenson-Kefauver race...
...contrast with this intelligent treatment of the feebleminded is Robert Fisher's stale catalogue of bullfight lore. Fisher's use of a banal subject--the discovery of dedication, and death, in a bullfight--would be bad enough if the story were well-handled. But the author seems to have almost no control. Every possible detail and almost all the conceivable eventualities of a bullfight are crammed into the story, completely obscuring the character of the novillero who achieves his consummation in death. Besides this retailing of tauromachian local-color, Fisher afflicts his readers with a stiff, unrealistic dialogue (including some...