Word: staling
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...time: a decade or two from now. The scene: the First Church of Christ, Smoker, the only place where nicotine addicts can find sanctuary in a society that has declared their pastime illegal. Communicants file up to the altar rail for a long drag on a cigarette - a precious, stale relic from the last carton of Marlboros sold before the U.S. government banned smoking in 2007. The priest blesses the faithful, they cough in response, and all exeunt to today's hymn, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...
...problem, of course, is that the humor in a five-minute late-night broadcast quickly wears thin when stretched over an LP. By the second song, Triumph’s raunchy misogyny (is that even the right word for a dog?) seems a little stale. The endlessly-repeated play on the word “bitch”€is not, in the end, as brilliant as Smigel thinks...
...They are a huge relief from the stacked rectangles, which I think got a little stale,” Cooper says...
However, the slogan’s incorporation of the word “choice” was indisputably ingenious. In the stale abortion debate, the questions are always framed the same way: when does life begin, what role should the government play, and what are the rights of the fetus versus those of the mother. The posters reconfigure the issue entirely. Just like Bill Clinton signing the Republicans’ 1996 welfare reform bill, HRL is sweeping abortion-rights advocates’ twin foundations—the logic of choice and women’s interests—out from...
After an hour of discussion in the Middle East bar, several of the guests move to the establishment’s downstairs club, a dimly lit dance floor with hanging stage lights that smells heavily of stale beer. There, leaders try to coordinate different facets of the campaign: media coverage, public activism, and legal work. Baird reports that he is meeting with the ACLU the following...