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...Chardin's character or emotional predilections, yet we can't help sensing that no artist could have been better equipped to paint still life. (Actually, he's not unlike the cat in his own seafood paintings, fastidiously stalking, with bright-eyed attention, something that cannot move but can go stale.) Everything comes to matter under his level scrutiny. A pyramid of red strawberries becomes a blazing Etna. The surface of a plum turns into a small adventure in discrimination as he gives you the white powder on the purply-black skin and the sharper white highlights reflecting from its gloss...
...Union by Jerry Oppenheimer (the author of tell-alls about Martha Stewart and Rock Hudson) doesn't have a great deal new to tell about the union. Oppenheimer's thesis--that the Clinton marriage was based from the start on an "intellectual blueprint" to win the presidency--is stale. But he has new evidence to support it, including on-the-record stuff from Marla Crider, a onetime Clinton girlfriend who clashed with Hillary in 1974 and has never discussed the situation publicly. And Oppenheimer has uncovered new material about Hillary's family background--an astounding amount, given that close...
Orthodoxy tends to make people lazy, stale, and stupid...
Last week New York City played host to PC Expo 2000, the summer's biggest personal-computing trade show, and we braved the stale convention-center air and 85,000 rabid technophiles to check out the latest and greatest in personal-computing technology. Ironically, PCs were the last thing on anybody's mind at PC Expo. Instead, PDAs, digital cameras, webpads, and other handheld gadgets were all the rage...
...there are more. It probably sounded good the first time around, but now writing about the lesser-known signers of the Declaration is just another one of the tired Fourth of July themes that circulate among America's writers like stale water in a fishtank...