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...Germans labeled Stempelarchitektur, rubber-stamp building. Thus a debased form of Modernist dogmatism, what Charles Jencks called "the rationalization of taste into clichés based on statistical averages of style and theme," turned out to be the official style of the '50s and '60s. When repeated ad nauseam by architects all over the U.S. during the building boom of the 1950s, to the point where the curtain-wall grid had become the "rational," cost-account face of capitalism itself, it was bound to provoke a reaction...
...instructing or allowing Dishy to drag everything in the classic Letter Scene beyond endurance. At first Dishy practices poses and gestures at great length. When he discovers the forged love note, he milks its contents interminably, sketching the enigmatic capital letters in the air and mouthing them repeatedly ad nauseam. And his labored attempts to achieve a smile should have stayed in vaudeville. Like Falstaff in Henry IV, Malvolio hasn't learned a thing by the end of the play, but he is not utterly stupid. Yet Dishy makes him seem more slow-witted than Sir Andrew...
...proclaims that his program "remains, fundamentally, a plan devised in the tradition of the Democratic Party." No. He has given us not a plan, but rhetoric in the best tradition of the Democratic Party. No one ever promised us unemployment, economic recession, peace with dishonor, a polluted environment, ad nauseam. I would not expect Jimmy Carter to do so. But it remains to be seen what he proposes to do about our problems, and what philosophy would shape his proposals...
...that we have once again been told about the tiger cages at Con Son and the barbarous tortures the South Vietnamese use in eliciting information from captives-ad nauseam-isn't it about time we have a decent in-depth study concerning the terror bombings of marketplaces and meetings, the kidnapings and murders of civilians committed by the Viet Cong...
Strindberg explicates the bleakness of marital life by demonstration, as the program tactfully puts it, "ad nauseam." Alice and the captain don't even have the consolations that a family argument affords with its own drama, distinct identity and kiss-and-make-up reconciliation. Their condition is static bitchiness that will go on forever until death-do-them part. After a while of this, even after Kurt arrives, it's difficult not to hope that death had better hurry...