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...just the way I giggle / sometimes you like the smell of me or how my stomach jiggles / but you don’t love me / that’s alright.” Most of the Oldham repertoire features unpredictable chord changes, but here the carnival atmosphere melts into stale poppy hooks, adorned by an occasional Nashville flourish pulled from the shelf...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...political leaders work themselves into high dudgeon over the sins of financial wizards who, we are told over and over again, have messed up the world for everyone else. But then, you can act outraged about the same thing only so many times before it all starts to sound stale. These spectacles, the public rhetorical floggings, have become teleplays, as predictable as a daytime soap opera, as comforting as a wet rock. (See pictures of the top 10 scared traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's AIG Outrage: All Talk, No Action | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

Need some stimulating new reading material for your bathroom? Has your interest in that stale copy of Diamond Magazine gone a little limp? Well, you're in luck. H BOMB IS BACK!!!! Details after the jump...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: The Fourth Coming of H BOMB | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...setbacks, including a vendetta with a network of angry firemen and an encounter with rapper Horsedick.MPEG (sic), played by Craig Robinson of “The Office” fame. Although “Miss March” has its funny moments, most of the humor is trite and stale. The film banks too heavily on the shock value of giving screen time to the corporeal taboo, such as a pair of testicles sans penis. The film’s deus ex machina, which involves a lustful lesbian make-out session, also strikes out. The humor throughout caters specifically...

Author: By Lillian Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Miss March | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...Jindal’s critics included Fox News correspondent Juan Williams, who called Jindal’s performance “amateurish” and “singsongy,” and New York Times columnist David Brooks, who tagged it “stale.” When listing the many stereotypes attributed to Indian Americans, amateurism, singsong, and staleness seldom come to mind...

Author: By Dhruv K. Singhal | Title: Just Words | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

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