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Refusing to continue the trial into February, Geenty said, "We don't want this case to get stale...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel and Seth M. Kupferberg, S | Title: New Hearing Set For Demonstrators; Reporter Expelled | 1/7/1975 | See Source »

...ideas, have trotted out their favorite twenty-year-old dance beat formula. Amazingly, to some extent, the formula still works; it is hard to avoid dancing to the damned thing, which only proves that a little bit of Chuck Berry goes a long fucking way. Nonetheless, a slightly stale air hangs about it, as about most of the album...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: Soul for the Soulless | 11/7/1974 | See Source »

Sissela Bok, handing out slightly stale Tootsie Roll Pops, smiled apologetically and explained that though her husband "tries never to miss a Halloween," he had been tied up at a dinner meeting...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, Wendy B. Jackson, Seth M. Kupferberg, and Richard Shepro, S | Title: Most Faculty Acknowledge Halloween | 11/1/1974 | See Source »

...place by making reservations on Fridays and Saturdays. No French dinner is complete without authentic French bread and our "Baguette", delivered from a local baker, is intentionally crisp (not "dry") just like the Parisian Baguette. Our desserts, except for the ice cream, are expertly prepared fresh several times weekly ("stale"?) on the premises and have become talking pieces to our regular patrons. And for all of this--finest cuisine and true French atmosphere--our complete dinners begin at $5.65 and average $7.00 (not "eight bucks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESTAURANT RESPONDS | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...worked briefly as a data processing manager for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, then set up the Dallas computer software firm of Electronic Data Systems with $1,000. By 1970 his assets had soared to as much as $1.5 billion. He promptly took an oceanic bath as the computer market went stale (in a single day the value of his stocks dropped $376 million), next scuttled tens of millions of dollars trying to bail out two sickly Wall Street brokerage houses. Still easily a centimillionaire, this U.S. Naval Academy alumnus has shelled out more millions in behalf of U.S. prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

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