Word: time-worn
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...thought than laughter. Steven (Tom Hanks) is a medical school dropout whose comic routines are pointed reminiscences of his own failures as a student. Lilah (Sally Field), a New Jersey housewife with a yen for humor, fails miserably at first at the business of being funny. She resorts to time-worn Polish jokes--you know the type: "My husband's Polish. He gave me something long and hard when we got married...a last name." Understandably, these earn more catcalls than applause, and for advice she turns to Steven, whose wry wit sends the audience into convulsions...
...Time "delves the parallels in beauty's brow," wrote Shakespeare. Today he could wryly add, "So plastic surgeons to your very wish will bow." Over the years, the cosmetic wizards have conjured many escapes from the ravages of age, from chemical peels to skin abrasion to surgical lifts. Now they are wielding a new magic wand: syringes filled with collagen. Injections of the whitish gel smooth away time-worn creases as well as acne and surgical scars. And at a relatively affordable price: treatments run $300 to $1,500, about a third of the price of a typical face-lift...
...mistakes made so far for this event are not especially grave, but they are unfortunate. Since past convocations have taken many forms (with and without degrees, large and small, etc.), no time-worn traditions are being violated. So at least planners have not broken with tradition just to snub Reagan. Their actions have only been petty. But worse is the lack of precedent for the future. Here was Harvard's chance to set a precedent of having Presidents at birthday celebrations. That alumni and others really care about recognition from the government is amply proven by the enormous efforts...
...many professors at Harvard, retirement barely puts a dent in the usual daily routine; most continue to work out of their Harvard offices, do research and a bit of teaching. But Thomson Professor of Government Arthus Mass isn't content to take his place in this time-worn tradition...
...large city where the emperor's palace lay, hundreds of thousands of experts and consultants lived and worked. Although they all had suggestions, they were brushed aside as "time-worn," "interventionist," or "Keynesian." One day, some swindlers arrived. They said that the plague stemmed from the sins of policymakers over the past two score and 10 years. People relied too much on government, lacking enough faith in the free market. The newcomers told everybody that they were economists, with solutions that could bring about a tremendous recovery--not the recoveries of late, where high growth came only with high inflation...