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...minutes. If you survive the excruciatingly slow painful beginning without running, screaming, out of the Agassiz you will be rewarded with the entertaining performances of the several accomplished leads. But all the talent in the world doesn't quite redeem a production marked mostly by its slow pace and stale direction. The funnier moments of the Gilbert and Sullivan operates do shine through the dreariness but it is depressing to see such a fine cast wasted...
...That's the most zip we've had all night," an elated Coach Ronn Tomassoni said after the game. "That's the most zip since Yale. You could see it in practice this week. We'd been getting a bit stale...
...fact, the authors use a repertoire of hackneyed Bush jokes that seem stale four months after the campaign. (Political Subtext...
...upper hand in the new information age. He also tried some restorative time off. In June he set out on a cross-country drive, renting a Chrysler convertible in Miami and wending his way along the Gulf Coast through towns like Pensacola and Biloxi. But the summer heat and stale motel air left him dehydrated, and by the time he reached Little Rock, he was running a 100 degrees fever...
When M. Butterfly was reviewed in The New Republic, Robert Brustein had said that there was too much plot, much going on, but that he still preferred an overspiced dish to stale white bread--do you think you tend to too much plot, too much story in this new play...