Word: staleness
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...expect, listening to Woody Allen complain about "never being able to lift more than ten times his body weight" is funny, but in Antz, it is the panorama that steals the show. The casting choices made by Dream Works are a good stab at originality in the increasingly stale world of animated blockbusters, but in the end, Antz turns out to be little more than the same old story...
Here in Tokyo, the threats and lectures are getting stale. Japan's leaders bristle at suggestions that they are still wallowing in a gigantic pool of bad bank loans and stagnant economic numbers. They point to a plethora of rescue plans and billions of dollars earmarked to jolt the economy awake. Granted, nothing seems to have worked yet. But the U.S. intervention to bolster the value of the yen last month and a stream of editorials decrying Japan's lack of resolve have spurred Tokyo to further action. Just last week, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto announced the establishment...
...reveal yourself to you. The primer begins in the emotional void of a San Francisco orphanage where Scully ends up after her father's suicide. By the time she rejoins her hapless mother for a make-do life in a makeshift roadhouse in godforsaken Alaska, "the smell of stale beer and cigarette smoke" is perfume to her, the rough miners princes. She works like a dog and builds an inner structure that gets her to Stanford and then to New York City, where she becomes a successful editor...
...talents between the sheets; a slimy comptroller with a repertoire of bilingual--but still awful--come-ons (as in, "You're looking recherche this evening"); and a black bookseller stuck in a '60s time warp who is the dead woman's ex-husband. Some of their secrets go stale by the time Chase finds the murderer, but readers can be forgiven for getting caught up in the snappy repartee and libidinous diversions scattered throughout the book...
Singers recording albums of standards face a dilemma not unlike actors contemplating Hamlet: how to launch songs with opening lines nearly as familiar--and potentially as rote--as "To be or not to be" and still sound fresh and spontaneous and not at all like a stale peanut-scented night at the airport Sheraton's cocktail lounge. In this regard, Jeffery Smith, an American expatriate living in Paris, has set himself a real challenge on his first American CD. He has sequenced the songs Lush Life ("I used to visit all the very gay places"), Misty ("Look...