Word: staling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call letters were RNI, for Radio NewYork International. The studio was a rusted 150-foot fishing ship, rechristened Sarah, anchored off Long Island just outside the U.S. three-mile territorial limit. The idea was to get beyond the Federal Communications Commission's reach to protest the "stale" sounds offered by licensed New York stations. The pirate broadcasts stopped last week, after four days, when Coast Guardsmen and FCC agents, citing an . international treaty prohibiting broadcasts aboard ships outside national territories, boarded the Sarah and arrested Chief Engineer Alan Weiner and Disk Jockey Ivan Rothstein. The two were released pending...
...been sweetened, enriched, fortified and colored, but one aspect of dry cereal has not changed: it gets stale soon after you open the package. Reason: the linings that are supposed to keep cereal fresh in the box are all but useless. As Tony the Tiger and his fellow cereal lovers know, the bag is difficult to open, easily ripped to shreds and nearly impossible to reseal...
...earth, as far as Brick Town and Closter, N.J., in search of the perfect Italian bread. "I like it for sandwiches. Especially with pepper and eggs." Another customer says he's been to Italy six times, but this bread is better. Giordano's bread is the best, even when stale, says a woman in a mink-paw coat and a new Volvo. She likes to grind it up for stuffed artichokes...
...traditions -- will be spared from the literalists, complaining both that the gore is too real and that the characters are not real enough. Protect them as well from the wrath of the traditionalists, who resist the intrusion of originality on their passion for the endless restatement of stale generic conventions. Deliver them instead to the audience that will be galvanized, as the filmmakers were, by the chance to reimagine all the cliches of crime fiction...
...characteristically reflective about the enduring popularity of Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy and the rest of the gang. "They're nice little kids," he explains, "not overly sweet -- people you can live with day after day." Nonetheless, Schulz bridles at critics who suggest that the strip has gone stale in recent years, insisting, "It is better drawn, and it has more depth than ever." What's more, Schulz still works from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., five days a week. Says he: "It's one of the few situations in my life where I feel totally secure." Linus would understand...