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...flaws a most remarkable film. In his anxiousness not to be merely entertaining, Rush injects overblown and spurious material that interferes with the pure amusement of the spectacle--as if there were something so mere about good entertainment that the filmmaker has to go out of his way to drape it in places with solemn purple robes of meaning...
President William McKinley's wife used to have fits. If she suffered one during, say, a White House state dinner, McKinley would reach into his breast pocket for a large silk handkerchief, which with a matter-of-fact chivalry he would drape over her face. The President's forbidding dignity kept the conversation going, and when poor Ida, an epileptic, came around, he would remove the handkerchief and tenderly lead her back into the table talk...
...reaction of the City Council to the news was relatively unconstructive. Bound by laws prohibiting it from interfering with Harvard expansion, the council voted only to drape City Hall in purple bunting, a symbol of mourning over the "slow death" of the city before Harvard's expansion...
After a few quiet months, the city Monday released a report detailing University property purchases over the last decade. The finding--Harvard owned some 700,000 square feet more of Cambridge than it did ten years ago, a statistic that prompted the City Council to drape City Hall in purple bunting, as if for a funeral...
...City Council last night voted to have city workers drape City Hall with garlands of purple bunting today to symbolize Cambridge's "slow death" caused by Harvard's removal of property from city tax rolls...