Word: staleness
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...episode that Guest has mined so skillfully in the past, but this time around he maintains little of the comic consistency that he has previously captured, settling instead for ham-handed punch-lines and tonally confused subplots. Guest’s distinctive mockumentary technique is not yet stale, but this latest creation arrives disappointingly undercooked...
...What was important to us in those days was getting the indie kids out and dancing,” Axelson said. “The scene was stale; there were just all these shows with kids nodding their heads and standing there. We got them energized, moving. That’s what I like to see as our legacy to the scene...
...spookiness” recalls Mailer’s earlier works for other reasons as well: the perpetual escape from a haunting repetition of stale ideas threads through his entire life...
...appetizer course was made extra special by a glass of pro secco—Italian sparkling white wine—as suggested by Cynthia Ruffner, Metropolis’ general manager. The pro secco felt as festive as champagne but lacked the aftertaste and stale scent, making it much smoother and easier to drink. It functioned to open the palate and ready it for the truly great main courses...
...only will undergraduates have to fight for physical expansion in the year ahead, but intellectual expansion as well. The curricular review which is about to take off in full force gives me hope that we can breathe life into a curriculum that feels stale and ready for retirement. A new general education requirement allowing non-concentrators to learn about the most relevant issues of the future in the disciplines they do not study but ought to know might lead to a domino effect for higher education across the country. Better advising, new incentives for faculty to teach interdisciplinary courses...