Word: stalely
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...were stale," Harvard Coach Wayne Lem said. "Our defense failed to cover UConn hits. We had seven misserves in the first set. We were leading 9-4, but we blew the set with bad serves...
...Kathleen Mahony-Bennett's oomphless ingenue is not even that. The book, by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton but revamped before the 1934 opening by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse (Life with Father), has been timidly updated by John Weidman and Crouse's son Timothy. It is still so stale and inane that it wheezes of summer stock. But the difference between Porter and other composers remains -- well, night...
...looked at my roommate and smiled for the first time that night. Soon we were laughing at the Guru's jokes. Before I knew it, we had switched to hot chocolate, and a huge plate of fries. After polishing those off, we shared in a communion of free stale doughnuts with the regulars. And, of course, there was more coffee...
...hand is evident in the "Saturday Night Live"-style satire that pervades the movie. That is, each sketch takes one joke and runs with it until it meets an obstacle, like a football player who catches an interception. Most of the time, the sketches "change channels" before they get stale, but some of them don't know when to quit...
...once worked for the Marx brothers, then let us find some other publisher." James Agee and Dorothy Parker were friends of Perelman's, but readers would never know it from his keyhole view of the beach house the two shared: "They both exist in a fog of crapulous laundry, stale cigarette smoke, and dirty dishes, sans furniture or cleanliness; one suspects they wet their beds...