1.   At least the Oscars had a previous existence to their becoming a television staple.

2.   Cubic zirconia jewelry, for example, is a television staple, but not every jewelry or department store carries it.

3.   Police officers in cities, in general, and those in New York, in particular, have long been a television staple.

4.   It rankles with a country where the marathon is a television staple that Japan has never had an Olympic champion.