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Anti-affectations: This is my favorite category, since its bearers can justify themselves as practical, reasonable or typical. This category allows everything--short of complete oblivion--to be ultimately viewed as affectations, which allows for more cynicism, always a good thing, to exist in the world...
...that don't exist in performable form," laments McGlinn. "If a show closed out of town, the scores could be thrown out on the last night. A lot of pre-Oklahoma! Rodgers and Hart, Porter and Kern shows are gone forever. We're trying to reclaim from oblivion all the work of America's greatest writers and composers...
...Bennett said last week. "I never could get used in this town to being treated as if I were a large house cat." In four years Bennett attended only one State and one Gridiron dinner, absences considered in pre-Bennett eras as a sure way to oblivion. His alternative for political longevity: home cooking as often as possible. "Eat something recognizable," he declared. "Beef or chicken. Or chicken or beef." But go home. There is much more there than food...
...fill. Wheeler wanted a rugged star to play a college track coach who happens to be gay. And despite all the gains made by homosexuals in the U.S. in recent years, playing the part of a gay is still considered by many to be a fast ride to oblivion...
...Give the ignorant and the jealous a little taste of their own medicine by banishing them to the tunnels without a map. The next time you see a river rat lost in the Quad, tell them you're sorry and then let them scurry away into oblivion...