Word: staling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assumption behind director Alan King's effort is that Ionesco is a fuddy-duddy playwright. True, his Rhinoceros sketches the transformation of all humans, save one, into grumpy beasts, but then readers of daily newspapers have long predicted such things. Besides, Ionesco calls for realistic sets and the stale old division of a play into acts and scenes...
...avoid a perpetual cloud of doubt and distrust, there must be a general reinvestigation of President Kennedy's assassination -- now, before the evidence becomes stale. Such an inquiry should seek to benefit from the lessons of the Warren Commission. Its voting members, as well as its investigators, should be able to devote their full time to the study. They should not be pressed by the White House or any authority to produce their evidence quickly, and they should amass all the evidence before structuring the presentation of their conclusions...
...when painting mostly runs to stale geometries, pop playthings and optical gimmickry, an artist who tackles the image of man with originality is a rare figure. Such a man is Britain's Francis Bacon, but it is unlikely that his portraits will ever hang in any corporation board room. His paintings attack conventional concepts of beauty, plow the flesh and reap a contorted yet keen vision of mortality...
...banks of the Illinois River in the very heartland of America, Peoria has for years been the butt of jokes, the gagman's tag for Nowheresville. "How come you got married?" "Well, I was booked into Peoria and it was raining." Today that humor is as stale as the idea of Peoria as a backwater of national life. The Peoria of 1966 welcomes more foreign visitors than just about any other U.S. city of its size (pop. 133,000), and sends its citizens abroad to range the world. The bartender at the Pere Marquette Hotel routinely makes change...
When it is administered, preventive vaccine is effective, but fresh batches must be kept under refrigeration and administered within two weeks before they go stale-a schedule that is all too easily missed in the war-weary countryside. Massive doses of antibiotics such as streptomycin and chloramphenicol often save those stricken with plague, but without early diagnosis and treatment, the chance of recovery is slim...