Word: ditto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reduction into soulless, primordial atoms. He observes that power is customarily pursued for its own sake and dismisses idealism from political behavior. Wearily he views America as a violent, uncivilized land full of literal-minded people with no sense of paradox. Its writers are inferior to those of Europe, ditto its food, and its attitude toward taboos is infantile. On and on Vidal goes, repeating much of the same material he has so often used in magazine articles and on TV talk shows. Two Sisters is ingenious, and its prose is as elegant as any being written today. But, after...
...retail price. When a choice is made-as many as 50 possibilities are shown to Mrs. Nixon by designers who drop into her New York hotel suite at appointed hours during her stay-the dress is custom-made and withdrawn from production to avoid a run-in with a ditto...