Word: staleness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...knew a girl whose lover came in several disguises--white cross Methedrine, orange triangles of Dexedrine, "black beauties," long white lines of coke. She followed her lover everywhere--into parking lots with strangers, into dark cars, into the shadows along steep mountain roads, into apartments that smelled like stale smoke and had three or four locks on every door. When her lover wasn't with her, she was left with her own terror of how to move through the world alone. She didn't know how to deal with people alone; she needed her partner, her other half. You need...
...Undergrads’” biggest failure is that it relies on college stereotypes so stale that most middle school students will be tempted to tune out. “Daria” can be appreciated by anyone, but perhaps the greatest reason for the show’s success is that it only becomes funnier if one is immersed in high school life and the paradoxes that are so fundamentally a part of it. But instead of digging for the deeper comic ironies inherent in dorm life, “Undergrads” is content to recycle...
...have a bag of stale peanuts. I wasn't ever planning on eating them...
...Stale fruit and stale cereal...
Having once riled Mayor Rudolph Giuliani with the "Sensation" show, the Brooklyn Museum has done it again with Renee Cox's Yo Mama's Last Supper, in which Cox features herself naked in the place of Christ. It's all just so much stale postmodern show biz, slick and corny at the same time. Don't let it divert you from Bob Greene's hot shots of Papua New Guinea or Beuford Smith's Hip-Hop poster series, highlights in an otherwise benign but mostly unremarkable show...