Word: staling
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...gonzo journalism yields no explicit moral evaluations. It gives, rather, a detailed description of the desperate mood and frantic action epitomized by crowds surrounding the crap tables, "still humping the American Dream, that vision of the Big Winner somehow emerging from the last-minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino...
...less the same route to Africa. There the harsh cynicism that was ground into them by the city streets suddenly evaporates. By returning to their roots, their pride is rekindled, their racial dignity renewed-and the scriptwriters have a fresh location and a little novelty to lard onto their stale adventures...
Alan Bridges' direction is perfectly in tone with the rest of the film - stale and secondhand...
...beset directors far below Anderson's level. The picaresque style which Anderson adopts has already been so exhausted in both film and literature as to leave little room for originality. And the major fresh idea -- generalizing the actor's experience -- smells so strong that it might as well be stale...
...CAMPAIGN was tired, stale and plastic almost from the beginning. One of the candidates did not even put in an appearance. When Thompson was refused a White House press pass ("Rolling what?" said the officials), he wrote that "getting barred from the White House is like being blackballed at the Playboy Club;" following Nixon at all "is like being sentenced to six months in a Holiday Inn;" and "the difference between traveling with McGovern and traveling with Nixon is just like the difference between going on tour with the Grateful Dead and going on tour with the Pope." Curtains...