Search Details

Word: staling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...with several players. Contemporary society takes a somewhat different view of divorce: it is neither shocked nor girlishly intrigued; it accepts it along with other unpleasant aspects of life. Scrampled Couples, therefore, is not a game with great comical appeal to the modern playgoer. The Idea is a bit stale...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: "The New York Idea" Opens at Loeb | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, commits the vibrant resources of the Actors Studio Theatre to a 4½-hour play that would be more than a little stale and distinctly interminable without them. What salvages the drama is the emotional integrity of Geraldine Page and her acting confreres. Engagement ends July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 21, 1963 | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, commits the vibrant resources of the Actors Studio Theater to a 4½ -hour play that would be more than a little stale and distinctly interminable without them. What salvages the drama is the emotional integrity of Geraldine Page and her acting confreres. Limited run ends July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: may 31, 1963 | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...while Big Ben was announcing midnight. "I am one of the few people I know," says Burton, "who drinks only when he works." And this is true. Between plays or films, his intake dwindles toward zero. But when he is working, he has "to burn up the flatness?the stale, empty, flat, dull deadness that one feels when one comes off a stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Man on the Billboard | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...would be dangerous to go either with a tired pitcher or with a stale one in Northeaster's tiny park. The left-field fence is about 250 feet from the plate and home runs are cheap. It should be a good opportunity for the Crimson's hitters to fatten up their averages if they can get a few hits off MacPherson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson to Face Lions, Huskies | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

Previous | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | Next