Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Normandy, Montmartre and Marseille and his still lifes are gayer, more vivacious, and show a love of life again strikingly similar to that evidenced in Van Gogh's brilliantly blobbed canvases. Like Van Gogh, Dumont also feared artistic impotency. He once told a friend: "I am getting stale, and nervous of repeating myself. I ought to discover something new ... To remain static is death...
...variety of tricks, including mock trials and frivolous discussions of good and evil, in their efforts to save the Ducotels. Slezak, bouncing about the stage in a care-free, self-assured style, is the real mastermind of the group. A superb comedian, he makes gimmicks which might have grown stale seem fresh throughout...
...imaginative or the better adjusted shun the airy domes of Widener for the efficiency, convenience, and comfort of America's model college library. As long as the right books are there, and as long as the undergraduate can get them and read them, Lamont is a success--despite the stale...
Director Ralph Nelson has an unusual TV problem: he is afraid of growing stale. Most TV shows live precariously from one 13-week option to the next, but Nelson's I Remember Mama (Fri. 8 p.m., CBS) has been on the air regularly for nearly five years with the same sponsor (General Foods), the same basic cast, the same editor, Frank Gabrielson, and the same producer, Carol Irwin. Veteran actors Peggy Wood and Judson Laire are still playing a lovable pair of Norwegian immigrants in San Francisco; Robin Morgan, Dick Van Patten and Rosemary Rice are still their Americanized...
Workout. In Baltimore, charged with turning in three false alarms, Alvin Anay angrily explained: "I don't like to see firemen sitting around. If they don't get exercise, they get stale...