The evening's one instance of genuinely gripping art arrives at last, revising an age-old rule of the stage: it's not over until the FedEx lady sings.
But she proves the age-old rule that, if you're trying to make 'em laugh, it doesn't matter what your face looks like: funny is so powerful that it destroys the beauty barrier.
Maybe he is - but surely the age-old rule on no hanky panky in the Tardis is one that even this incarnation of the programme is not set to break.
Ignoring the age-old rule that skirts should get longer, not shorter, when the markets tumble, designers exhibiting at Milan's fashion week have been countering the doom and gloom from the nearby stock exchange with a series of colourful shows.
The Postal Service announced Monday that it was dropping its age-old rule that required a person depicted on a stamp to have been dead for at least five years.
Black dresses should also be avoided at weddings according to the age-old rule, but Berlin disagrees.
"Many who don't personally support marriage for gay couples don't believe the federal government should be discarding its age-old rule that counsels respect for each state's determination of who may marry and who may not in their own jurisdiction," reads the Third Way memo.
The dramas, emotional cliffhangers and comic punchlines were set up according to age-old rules of storytelling.
Those magnetic dresses and smiles gleaming on the paper, pulling you in, defining and teaching your young brain the age-old rules of aesthetics.
We are relaxing a lot of the age-old rules that have been part of these old-time country clubs that would frown on kids under a certain age".
