Word: staling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps a production first choreographed in 1944 will inevitably appear timeworn in 1994. Whatever the cause of the corps' stale presentation, the Boston Ballet's 1994-95 season has not started on a lively note...
...Crimson entirely broke from the norm with eight boxes of slightly stale Dunkin' Donuts, although the first-years left an entire box of jellies untouched...
...sticky conditions and a heavy pitch helped slow the play down after that, but give high marks to dynamic freshmen Toure McCluskey and Ricky Le for injecting life into a game getting stale...
Perhaps the most important imaginative relationships in young Dali's life were with people, not paintings: the poet Federico Garcia Lorca and the future filmmaker Luis Bunuel. United in their loathing of bourgeois convention -- Dali and Lorca coined the term putrefact for any stale idea or piece of kitsch that offended their nostrils -- the three were, in fact, very different creatures. Bunuel never lost his anarchic iconoclasm, whereas middle age ended Dali's; but the films they made together (An Andalusian Dog, 1929, and The Golden Age, 1930) remain classics of provocation. For a few years, Lorca and Dali found...
...other tracks, the Beasties branch out from rap. There are several slick, funk-inspired instrumentals (Ricky's Theme, Transitions), and a couple of stale punk-influenced songs (Tough Guy, Heart Attack Man). There's also the hovering sense that there are about a zillion bands on the planet that are better at funk and punk than the Beastie Boys. One of those groups is Soul Asylum...