Word: staling
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...plot does not draw one in. Even when the audience learns the identity of the murderer, the climax of the play, there seems no suspense because there is no logical reason for his (or her) guilt. There are no clues, no plot progression or twists. The line are stale and occasionally incoherent, tangential to strang degrees. When Marge delivers a line about the British Royal Army in the context of health inspection, no one laughs because no one understands what she is talking about...
...word seemed to be 'bulimia', I could almost feel the monarchy's credibility erode like a sugar cube in hot tea. There was Diana, in a stunning black jacket with white blouse, pouring her heart out: conspiracy theories involving Charles's "team" trying to portray her as a loony; stale revelations about trysts with horseback riding instructors and crank calls to millionaires; and those mediocre scripted phrases: "There were three of us in the marriage; it was getting a bit crowded." Oh please. We can almost see your eyes following the teleprompter's cues...
...incandescent lights, the pattern of the wallpaper and the globs of varnish on the wooden bannister. His four older siblings had all arrived home earlier, all with their uncomfortable spouses. He trudged up the stairs and into his room, collapsing onto his high school bed. It smelled stale and abandoned. That night he dreamt of driving a small black convertible on a summer night downtown...
...farces, he plays crabby geezers: the tourist with tsuris in Don't Drink the Water, a decrepit comic in a new version of The Sunshine Boys. Yet in his films Allen is the Woody of old--or, rather, of young. To Lenny, the raw, vibrant Linda makes Amanda seem stale and shrewish. Bonham Carter (who's a radiant 29 and certainly doesn't look shrewish) must play that standard Woody marplot, the older woman. Sure, Linda's got the screwball charm of the early Judy Holliday, but does every Allen superbabe have to be born yesterday...
...flair in even the smallest detail: the building's ATMS look like jukeboxes. Mostly, however, the museum rises above Hard Rock Cafe-style gimmickry by showing respect for the music and its origins. Still, rock by nature resists institutionalization--the Lollapalooza tour, only in its fifth year, already seems stale. Museum officials plan to open a high-tech theater later this year in the hope that holographic concerts, online music events and other technology-rich experiences being created will help keep the institution fresh and relevant. After all, the last thing a rock museum should seem like is something that...