Word: rehashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pioneer feminist Betty Friedan dismisses the book as an "obsolete rehash" and criticizes Wolf for dwelling on superficialities rather than coming to grips with the modern-day political challenges that confront females. While Friedan agrees that women often go to extremes in their pursuit of good looks, enduring repeated face-lifts and possibly risking their health by having silicone injected into their breasts, she thinks Wolf's book distorts the relationship between feminism and beauty. Women, she says, do not have to choose between the two, but can delight in a frivolous enjoyment of fashion without becoming a slave...
Next Sunday's elections will give the Undergraduate Council another chance to rehash a timeless debate: the question of whether the organization should use its role as a representative body to delve into controversial issues...
...Married a Witch (Columbia; Michael Grais and Mark Victor) The writers of Poltergeist I and II want to capture the spirit yet again. But this one sounds like a feature-length Bewitched rehash. And probably not as funny...
...antiquity" of the 1920s was not simply a rehash of the antiquity venerated by neoclassicists a century before. Provincial antiquity seemed less mined out and more alive than mainstream classicism. Thus in Italy -- Massimo Campigli's painting, for instance, or Marino Marini's sculpture -- the % emphasis shifted from Roman marbles and Greek urns to the rougher, more vital- looking frescoes and terra-cottas of the Etruscans. The idea was to recapture a sense of antiquity that connoted a spirit of place, an Arcadian flavor, more Hesiodic than Augustan...
...those dark and chilly cold war years, the mysterious taboo surrounding the communist world fascinated me, and I took to monitoring these stations with a passion. Why settle for a bland rehash of the CBS Evening News spouted by Voice of America bureaucrats when you can hear news from the Evil Empire itself? With the secret fervor of a teenager sneaking his first drink of alcohol. I listened to the dark echoey voices of Bulgarian news broadcasters parroting the party line, the cheerful banter of Radio Habana Cuba's hosts touting the glories of the revolution...