Word: staling
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...Clown around. The Big Apple Circus is in town until the end of May. Be a little kid for the day and piss off stuffy parents. Let your date see your care-free side and grab a beer to wash away the taste of stale cotton candy...
...What a show," said Alvin Ballard, 56, a construction contractor who skipped work to watch. But jurors seemed less amused, which didn't surprise author John Maginnis, who has written two books about Edwards and says his act began to go stale in the '80s. The biggest blow to Edwards might actually have come before the trial even began, when it was moved from New Orleans, where it rains almost every afternoon to wash away the stain of sin, to Baton Rouge, which is less inclined to let the bon temps rouler. Even if Edwards walks, he'll have little...
...sort of place where you expect great machines to be built--a cramped, windowless room where keyboard wires and screen cables coil round cups of stale coffee. A handful of X-shaped boxes in brushed metal, each polished to perfection for a punishing 15 hours, lie on workbenches in varying states of completion. The team of six engineers putting them together has gone four days with less than four hours' sleep each night. There's a maniacal tinge to their humor. Bald-pated Drew Angeloff has taken to teasing his colleagues with the blue flame of his soldering equipment. "Help...
...With that in mind, it's hard to fault the cast given that they've been given such empty and stale material, but each member really doesn't seem to want to be there. Tim Robbins must be appearing either because of blackmail, contractual obligations to Disney or a personal favour to Brian De Palma because he phones in most of his performance (probably when he realized how bad the whole project was going to be). Don Cheadle, who has previously been a solid bit player, lacks charisma here and Jerry O'Connell has the dubious distinction of being upstaged...
...column you are about to read has been written countless times before, by countless other people, in countless different forms, in countless other forums. Nevertheless, the principles at stake are so important, so essential to the preservation of civility, that they require multiple repetitions. In short, no matter how stale the following may seem, it simply must be said...