Word: staleness
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...just single scenes that have a reminiscent flavor. The whole thing appears to come out of a cutting room of the 1935 days. Then it was new, and jolly, and something that everybody liked. Now it is just the same old stale stuff...
...stale it is. The old sophisticated drawing-room comedy with the self-sufficient woman and the insufficient plot. Once it was Fred MacMurray, now it's Brian Aherne. But Rosalind Russell stays the same. It gets boring, Nick, honest it does...
Nightly in the "reporters' room"-frenzied and cluttered with teletypes, telephones, stale sandwiches, cups of tea, personalities, smoke, temperament, bitter grins and rush-he helps build the next day's Express. With a talent unrivaled in Fleet Street, he picks out of heaps of copy the stories that fit his line, plays them for all they are worth, with a fine disregard for what his staider competitors...
...fertile mind and the rather more fervent than fertile minds of his gag-writers (three of whom, he claims, are beavers) have made good pictures out of the most terrible ones, and they have done it once again with "Let's Face It." No matter how stale the plot or how vile the odour of his surroundings, Hope spring eternal...
...Landis, new U.S. Economic Director for the Middle East, skittishly skirted these questions last week at his first Cairo press conference. Said he gravely: "U.S. policy is 'achievement of the objectives of the Atlantic Charter.'" Egyptian newsmen fidgeted. To them, the Four Freedoms already sounded as stale as "Making the World Safe for Democracy" did after Versailles. Egypt was safe, so to them the war was over. Egyptians are fighting the peace. They wanted more specific, realistic answers to the suspicions of Syrians, Iraqians, Persians, Egyptians, Palestinians, on U.S. postwar motives. Then Minister Landis let slip...