No fusty tome of academic lit-crit, it's lively and insightful.
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You'll see that the best authors ignore these fussy, fusty rules.
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Risk and compliance is typically a fusty, boring and frankly unsexy topic.
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Wolfe put it, like corn husks — "overripe" wives, but fusty husbands too.
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It's always a delight to see fusty old spaces being infiltrated by innovators.
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To many of them Taiwan's cities seem fusty in comparison with China's boomtowns.
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The advent of mobile money was a shock for east Africa's fusty financiers.
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Contrary to its image as a fusty Victorian heirloom, cricket has constantly evolved.
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She is a 21st century Californian going into a fusty old aristocratic family.
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But the fact is, even a firm stoutness is considered maternal and fusty.
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It seems fusty even in modern literature to say that someone ESPIES something.
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The Carmichael Show may be old-school, but there's nothing fusty about it.
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Despite the esoteric premise there is nothing creaky or fusty about the novel.
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Cognac has also shed its fusty image to become a hit with rap musicians.
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Apps, including TenderTree and HomeHero, will replace the advertisements once crafted for fusty magazines.
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This wasn't a case of the fusty establishment pandering to a hot new hitmaker.
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I found it inspiring and charming — a bit fusty at times, but endearingly so.
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We try to separate our own experiences from beliefs based on fusty assumptions of old.
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GULLIVER'S GATE bills itself as a museum of miniatures, but that makes it sound fusty.
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Wine With Cheese The final fusty belief is that cheese goes best with red wine.
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The clientele couldn't be further from the fusty tweed-clad Old Boys Club I was expecting.
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The smell of fusty paper, damp cover binding, obliterated the stink of fast food and electricity.
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But the reference to antiques dealers has now been discarded, lest it sound musty and fusty.
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For far too long, beans have had something of a fusty reputation in the United States.
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It's fusty and pretentious but also haunting, a book of ghosts and a book of this moment.
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Unlike fusty old Java, Spark and Scala are things that tend to get engineers excited in 2017.
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It would deny secessionists in Scotland their favourite talking point: the fusty public-school evils of distant Westminster.
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Christina grows sick with the smell of humanity: the sweat and garlic, the stagnant mouths and fusty wool.
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It's still a banger, fusty Orientalism aside, over a century later — the source of endless adaptations, references, and parodies.
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Even some people who are liberal-minded in politics can become more fusty over language as they get older.
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That's the hard-earned freedom that comes with fusty Saturn, planet of no fun, finally skedaddling from your sign.
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Portnoy's Complaint was Roth's breakthrough book because he said good-bye to the fusty seriousness of his formal education.
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He designated Ms. Mitchell, a former public relations executive from New York, to transform the team's fusty cheerleader squad.
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Like Miss Brodie, our Mr. Keating is perceived as disruptive and dangerous by the fusty establishment at his school.
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Though he was only eight years into his chairmanship, Wilson had already overhauled the fusty image of the art trade.
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Harrison always feels like an interloper in Bachelor Nation, a fusty remnant of days when the show was more presentational.
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Now, Neistat, Hackett, and Beme's employees will spend their days dreaming up ways to make CNN a little less fusty.
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He sought to make Buddhism more accessible to ordinary people by updating its fusty image and embracing mass-market tactics.
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It's a story that could be the stuff of venerable and fusty historical fiction, but Mantel clears away the cobwebs.
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Mr. Ezersky's grids always have a conversational quality, replete with pop culture references that are usually multigenerational and rarely fusty.
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John Darnielle is "America's best non-hip-hop lyricist"—at least according to those fusty crabs over at the New Yorker.
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I searched the study for more information about the data it evaluated, and was surprised at how fusty the whole thing feels.
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He brought a new aggression to the role of speaker, cutting off lawmakers with comically fusty insults if they spoke too long.
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Zac Nicholson's images are soft as dust, but it's the haze of fusty rooms and the free-floating sexism of the time.
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"All art constantly aspires toward the condition of music": Walter Pater's fusty dictum is a neo-Romantic cri de coeur for Énard.
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The Tam O'Shanter servers wear tartan skirts and wool hats, which can give the place the look of a fusty tourist attraction.
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The fusty fraternity of old boys who populate Fleet Street ignore him in their gentlemen's clubs and mock him as a sheep-farmer.
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Barges loaded with plates bearing Arabic inscriptions and fusty dinner sets mimicking English chinoiserie made the long trip from Jingdezhen to the sea.
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Once the internet made it easier to see more, to learn more, and to buy more widely, J. Crew began to feel fusty.
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Royal Osetra caviar is turned from fusty to fun thanks to its accompanying doughnut holes and blinis made of phytoplankton and white corn.
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Until then, I'm going to have to err on the side of caution and reserve weed for the fusty living room where it belongs.
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But this can give some of his work a remote, fusty feeling, as if he had lived entirely in his head and his books.
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Economic anxieties press in from outside, but it's the farm's fusty interiors, where every cranny conceals a flinching flashback, that spark Alice's worst memories.
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There are also a disfigured, rather yearning character, called Pitiful Creature, and a fusty academic who breaks in occasionally to comment on the work.
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Mr Posner thinks most judges are lousy writers who rely unduly on their clerks and are "stuck in the past", paying obeisance to fusty traditions.
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She also broke with fusty convention by embracing gimmicks, like making the comedian and sitcom star Roseanne Barr a guest editor for an issue in 1995.
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I hope people don't think of clues like these as fusty highbrow relics — I like it when there's a wide-ranging mix, especially on a Sunday.
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Karl Lagerfeld, who was an influential force in the fashion world for years and made fusty legacy brands Chanel and Fendi trendy again, died on Tuesday.
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His biggest innovation — turning his bookstores into a destination where people could meet up and linger — helped transform bookselling from a genteel, fusty calling into big business.
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MacKinnon, of course, believed that the structure itself was the problem, a notion that for more than three decades has largely been received as benighted and fusty.
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ROME — Hear the name Old Curiosity Shop, and images of Dickensian England with odd taxidermy and piles of fusty bric-a-brac will likely come to mind.
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In the room with Lavinia and Orin, we experience at close range an oppressive onslaught of sordid secrets, and the fusty heaviness of the play takes over.
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Ghosn was brought in to shake up a fusty corporate culture and engineered an incredible turnaround, but his success and grandstanding sowed the seeds of his comeuppance.
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Tumblr gets a lot of eyeballs, many of which are young and hip—an attractive quality for the struggling, fusty thirst-monger that is Yahoo in recent years.
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In the fusty air inside, amid snaking cables and extras dressed like squares from 1961, portable air-conditioners fought a mighty and futile battle with Atlanta's wilting heat.
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As its popular provost and then president, Dr. Bowen was credited with transforming Princeton from a fusty, predominantly white male preserve to a more diverse and inclusive institution.
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The sesh welcomes one and all inside its fusty living room at 6 in the morning, provided you've got a blue bag of tins and spare Rizla going.
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And when Diana Rigg left, the glorious Rosemary Harris stepped in as the mother of Henry Higgins, the fusty grump played beautifully all along by Harry Hadden-Paton.
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Most of the people piling up to the counters there looked like the sort of 50-and-ups who would of course love a fancy, fusty fountain pen.
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IT HAS been over a decade since Mieko Kawakami lobbed a literary grenade into the fusty, male-dominated world of Japanese fiction with "Chichi to Ran" ("Breasts and Eggs").
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The stipulations stand to end a monopoly long held by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour, a fusty arm of the party under which all unions are presently herded.
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When Marin showed up for his first day of work at Bankers Trust, the fusty financial sector had been newly emancipated by the deregulation regime of the Nixon administration.
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Pearls are a classic on Mother's Day, but designs from the likes of Alexis Bittar and Saskia Diez prove that the ladylike stone is not fusty in the least.
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Didn't its team of wizards, led by the M.I.T.-trained chief executive, Jonah Peretti, know tricks of the digital trade that lay beyond the imagination of fusty old print publishers?
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Yet the experience doesn't seem fusty or pretentious, perhaps because the store came together suddenly a year ago, when decades-long friendships collided with a last-minute real estate opportunity.
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Panasonic is hardly the first company to try to change a product's image, though most marketing makeovers are aimed in the other direction — turning old and fusty into young and hip.
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Ed Victor, a debonair Bronx-born, Cambridge-educated book agent who dazzled London's fusty literary elite with his star-studded client roster and cheeky deal-making, died on Wednesday in London.
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Lampooning sexual mores, revealing racism and mocking priggishness, Oz incited fusty establishment elders in Australia and London and provoked what was, at the time, Britain's longest and possibly most colorful obscenity trial.
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"Much, again, as denim has gone through a change of perception from workmanlike commodity product to premium artisanal one, tweed too will be viewed as being other than fusty or dowdy," he said.
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In the heart of the fusty St. James' neighborhood, home to gentlemen's clubs, tailors and cigar merchants, it featured a frontage of steel and slate slabs through which poked windows displaying his jewelry.
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There's no couch, but there are many of the other trappings of fusty stage naturalism: a working sink, a kettle on the stove and "Mama Nola's famous strawberry cake" in the pie safe.
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Having learned to code-switch between the fusty Dutch of the courtroom and the richly accented argot of her youth, she found it effortless to connect with the hardscrabble relatives of her criminal clientele.
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"Grace" is a descriptor Piccioli likes to use to explain what he's after — a less fusty version of elegance, but a word also suggestive of movement and a more interior, spiritual sort of beauty.
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Important with her mission, Gillian went out onto the landing, calling their names in a low voice, raising her hand to knock before she poked her head around their bedroom doors into the fusty half-light.
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NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Freed from a layer of fusty bureaucracy, India's state refiners are helping the country evolve an oil market that reflects its status as both the world's fastest growing major economy and oil consumer.
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Despite the tawdry erotic intrigue, the movie's plot is less compelling than its strongly controlled mise-en-scène, which, with its abundance of creaky machines and fusty bric-a-brac, evokes a 19th-century cabinet of curiosities.
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One criticism regularly hurled at him by a barbed art media is that his is a fusty, hollow and parochial aesthetic that simply can't translate universally, and is largely propped up by his public eloquence, wit and theatrics.
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With its fusty wood-paneled walls, reverential oil portraits of dead white men, and buffet tables of beef tenderloin and goopy creamed spinach, it was a jarring setting for a night devoted to a story of racial inequality.
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Like the original, it focused on the last vestiges of humanity fleeing murderous robots called Cylons; in the Moore miniseries, the Cylons looked just like those they stalked across the galaxy, infusing a fusty premise with simmering dread.
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There may also be bit of rebranding for the historical society, including what Ms. Johnson said would probably be a name change — maybe even dropping the fusty-sounding words "historical society," as a number of other institutions have done.
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Not since I pushed my way through C. S. Lewis's fusty mothballed wardrobe and stepped out into the frozen, pine-scented forests of Narnia can I remember being so effectively transported into a viscerally, sometimes terrifyingly plausible alternate universe.
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Czechs are increasingly shunning fusty old watering holes and draft beer sales are sliding, so the world-famous brewers of pilsner are looking to inject some pizzazz into the traditional pub and attract younger patrons looking for a hip, modern feel.
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Next up, on June 8th, were former executives of BHS, a chain of fusty department stores that filed for administration in April (and which Mr Ashley admitted he would have liked to have bought), followed by Dominic Chappell, BHS's former owner.
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After all, it's the same length as the kind of prom dresses school deans would approve of, graduation gowns, and your babysitter's button-front sundresses — the kind of fusty, adult-approved clothing that is about as cool as Vitamin D milk.
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The rampant popularity of consumer messaging apps has long been influencing product development decisions, and plenty of fusty business tools have been consumerized in recent years, including by having messaging-style interfaces applied to simplify all kinds of digital interactions.
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So, it's complicated, which is why it is exasperating that the face-off between Cannes and Netflix is too often merely framed as evidence of French intransigence, of a fusty festival not being hip to the demands of the young audience.
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They mocked the reporter's fusty brown oxfords, and whooped as their leader clambered onto the roof of the KTLA van ("Jake, I wouldn't do that," the reporter warned), where he stood triumphant — symbolically, at least — over the old-media landscape.
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Just over a decade ago, the company hired Alex Carleton, a designer named at the time by GQ and the Council of Fashion Designers of America as one of America's best new men's wear designers, to revitalize its fusty image.
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And the sharp tone and willingness to mix it up has garnered an edgier reputation — and 3.5 million followers — for a company that was known for its "old-fashioned hamburgers," that fusty saloon-style signage and grandfatherly founder Dave Thomas.
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Mayer walked right into a company on life support, and reports from the time suggested she was brought on to make Yahoo great again—to save it from turning into the kind of fusty, dated deadweight popular with grandparents and Ted Stevens.
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A fusty old building filled with people who have antiquated mindsets, whose scaremongering viewpoints and opinions you can scarcely believe still exist inside people's heads in the 21st century, let alone in the heads of those who have the power to change things.
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In the Sheen Center's black box theater, the company, known for its forceful and efficient approach to classics, has stripped Shaw's 1913 drama of anything fusty, bringing the small audience face-to-face and sometimes leg-to-leg with its clever, vexing characters.
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But although Joey from "Friends" is charming, he's hardly some funny looking lanky buffoon, nor is he a fusty long-haired professorial type, and he certainly isn't a peppy little guy who become sullen when he wrecks a fabulous car on a racetrack.
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A batty composer, a fusty French chateau, missing children — and that old faithful, the Antichrist — add up to a whole lot of silliness in "The Sonata," a leaden Gothic ghost story whose high-gloss imagery fails to disguise its low-energy plot.
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While luxury marques such as Duesenberg and Stutz always understood the value of proving their products at the track, during the early days fusty G.M. forbade its engineers and salespeople from having anything to do with a sport bluenoses viewed as borderline criminal.
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Opening remarks by Farah Nayeri, a culture writer for The New York Times, who moderated a panel on museums and national identity: Museums used to be fusty old places where countries used to stash the artworks that they had accumulated over the centuries.
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His fusty sweater vests and professorial beard are designed to lend him an air of authority as he paces in front of no fewer than four chalkboards, delivering manic monologues about the DNC, FBI, IMF, and a cast of at least nine Ukrainian political figures.
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Facebook's explosively popular photo-sharing app not only serves to unite members of this fusty, long-obscure subculture the world over, but it has also helped spread watch obsession among the digital generation, turbocharging the vintage market in the process, several prominent dealers said.
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No, I will not be coloring my thinning hair, altering my fusty wardrobe (heavy on Harris Tweeds and button-downs), pretending that Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye were not the last word in music, or wearing a watch without an hour, minute and second hand.
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THINK OF THE upper echelons of the money-management business, and the image that springs to mind is of fusty private banks in Geneva or London's Mayfair, with marble lobbies and fake country-house meeting-rooms designed to make their super-rich clients feel at home.
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A financially struggling painter hides her Gesellenstück — a fusty monstrosity, technically perfect and fashionably moribund, a "baleful garment that no one would ever wear because of the hatefulness of the cloth and the cut and the straps and the stitching" — in a wardrobe in her studio.
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The fusty ambience of 221B Baker Street probably isn't the right backdrop for a reprise of the Catalina wine mixer from "Step Brothers," but I expect this to be one of the few screen takes on Arthur Conan Doyle to acknowledge Holmes's habit of mainlining cocaine.
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Offering a nuts-and-bolts exploration of the English language, Stamper displays a contagious enthusiasm for words and a considerable talent for putting them together, as when describing "the fusty glut of old papers bunged hastily into metal bookshelves" that fills the basement of Merriam-Webster.
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The company has faded over the decades, its grandeur eclipsed and its animal acts seeming fusty, but make no mistake: Something irreplaceable will be lost when Ringling closes up its tent for good — a tradition of inspiring awe that connected parent to child, generation to generation.
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Gagra Journal GAGRA, Georgia — Employed for nearly four decades at a sanitarium once so exclusive that only the very well connected or heavily armed could get a booking, Tatyana Gaivoronskaya grew accustomed to freeloading Communist Party big shots and the unruly gunmen who took over their fusty rooms.
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Somehow there is harmony between hand-wrought Mediterranean flourishes, Chinese influences and fusty English armoires, between post-Impressionist-inspired pottery from the Omega Workshops (the studio started by the English art critic and painter Roger Fry) and the yellowing edges of first editions packed in a neo-Classical bookcase.
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The hall is not only a showcase for the nonprofit institute, which relied on a plaster artisan, an architectural designer and a contractor who donated time and expertise, but it is also the latest effort in the once-fusty institute's push to make classicism relevant today under its new president, Peter Lyden.
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Cut off from her family's money and installed as a live-in librarian at a fusty Manhattan arts club redolent of its geriatric members' "hoarding and missed doses of Thorazine," Ava (who writes with a quill pen and quaffs absinthe frappés) aspires to compose ornate opuses with brooding characters named Agustin and Anastasia.
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Both began political careers in places where success required coalition-building across party lines: Mr Obama in the fusty, cronyish Illinois state Senate, and Ms Harris in the lock-'em-up world of elected public prosecutors, starting as a district attorney for San Francisco, before becoming head of law enforcement across California in 2010.
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Stories like hers are my favorite things to discover when digging into a historical period: They bring alive the people of the past not as fusty characters out of a textbook but as three-dimensional human beings who had inside jokes and went on rants about politics and refused to be denied their whiskey.
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She already owned two of his daring Modernist glass works, from the period earlier in his career when the Murano-based glass company, Venini, hired him to revamp the island's fusty image, which he did by encouraging artisans to deviate from their traditional ornate chandeliers in order to create contemporary shapes and saturated colors.
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One morning in May, Bill de Blasio and I were sitting on the porch of Gracie Mansion, jousting civilly through a 70-minute interview at the fusty-but-regal mayoral residence abutting the East River, when we arrived at a point of agreement: Many New Yorkers do not seem to understand him very well.
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One morning in May, Bill de Blasio and I were sitting on the porch of Gracie Mansion, jousting civilly through a 70-minute interview at the fusty-but-regal mayoral residence abutting the East River, when we arrived at a point of agreement: Many New Yorkers do not seem to understand him very well.
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Directed by veteran Doctor Who director Douglas Mackinnon, it's a funny, warm treat that fans of the book will find familiar and endearing, from the strong ensemble cast — Michael Sheen in particular shines as the fusty, fastidious angel — to the slightly kitschy production design, which flits between a litany of pleasantly clichéd English aesthetics, from P.G. Wodehouse to Harry Potter.
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We've been rightfully distracted by the bad news: the unsafe environments, the bros, the crime stats, and the douchebags, yet in this process we've perhaps forgotten that it's also under the low-lights of basements and dying lamps of fusty 4:00 AM living rooms that male friendships are often able to best communicate vulnerability, and are best equipped to know each other.
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Built in 1876, the historic property had operated as an inn (upstairs) and a restaurant (downstairs) for most of its existence, but when its new owners, Margaret Grade and Daniel DeLong, took over in 2013, they painted the fusty bright-white Victorian a gloomy shade of gray (to much local controversy) and reopened only the restaurant, named Sir and Star.
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Whether addressing grey-haired ex-factory hands in Ohio on the campaign trail, or greeting reporters at his fusty, brass-plated skyscraper in Manhattan, Mr Trump insists that China only sells so many goods in America because it has devalued its currency—even though most independent economists call that charge out-of-date, noting that recently China has been spending to prop up the yuan.
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Then there was the issue of the Equal Rights Amendment and how it was a fusty, dusty piece of hippie memorabilia that also had baggage, and that baggage had been lost in transit along with any recollection the public ever had that it A. existed, B. was never was ratified, or C. means that women, technically, never got equal rights under the law.3.
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But sparks fly once Mr. Hayes joins the "Midnight Express" entourage when it plays the 1978 Cannes film festival — Mr. Parker, who has aged into a fusty-old-Englishman type and is wholly unapologetic about the film's cultural prejudice (or "raishism," as Mr. Puttnam pronounces it), sniffs at Mr. Hayes's "ego tripping" in France, which included showing up for the red carpet premiere in a white tuxedo.
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To make sense of all this conflicting anecdotal data, you'd have to turn to statistics — dull, fusty, dramatically inert statistics — which tell us, without embellishment, that the planet is warming up fast, that the percentage of demonstrably false rape allegations is in the low single digits, and that if you have a gun in your home you're a lot less likely to repel an intruder than kill yourself.
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" -- "With Britain's exit from the European Union official, at long last, the two partners on Monday began to squabble over their future relationship, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson huffing that he would rather leave the economic bloc without a free-trade deal than see Britain shackled to fusty European rules," William Booth and Michael Birnbaum report: "At the same hour in Brussels, E.U. chief negotiator Michel Barnier outlined the bloc's demands, declaring that Europe will agree to free trade only if Britain submits to the continent's regulations.
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