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...urban affairs. "We're not a unified sect," insists Teachout, adding that they do have one tenet in common: "The political and intellectual legacies of our older brothers and sisters, the baby boomers of the '60s, were a flop, a failure, a disaster." He sums up those legacies as "stale '60s romanticism, wan '70s disillusion, tedious '80s whining...
...kicked through the skies by flak and assaulted by swarms of fighters. In this, its better half, Memphis Belle achieves something like epic proportions. Out of an authentic emotion -- fear -- it finally forges the kind of unshakable link with an audience that the sweet, stale cliches of male bonding could never sustain...
...York was for more than two centuries -- and still is -- a beacon for the best, brightest and bravest people from all over the U.S. and all around the world. They come to test themselves against the toughest competition, to make a buck, to reinvent lives that seem stale in any other setting. As the song that has become the city's unofficial anthem puts it, "If I can make it there, I'd make it anywhere...
...been standing here for nine hours waiting for water," says Romis Ali, 45, a Bangladeshi who worked at the Meridien Hotel in Kuwait City. Ali, in his second week at the camp, hasn't had anything to drink in 20 hours. He had his last meal, a slice of stale bread, two days...
...anyone who observes the brio of these rehearsals, as well as the total lack of temperamental combustion, it seems clear that there is the embryo of a new troupe here. For dance fans the notion is very attractive. Things are stale now in both ballet and modern dance. The prolific Morris -- who says, "I can make up a thousand steps; my problem is deciding what to keep" -- has shown an affinity for classical movement. It could be a dream linking. Baryshnikov, however, doesn't think a White Oak Company is in the cards. Speaking of dancers in the group...