Word: shtick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...liability. They are scrambling to recast themselves as populist crusaders whose main reason for being in the nation's capital is to fight against its wicked ways. Says Larry Harrington, a Democratic Senate campaign strategist: "Everybody is playing the outsider. That's this year's shtick...
...overboard in showing respect to the citizenry. Some of the newer stock characters, like the Korean greengrocer and the Indian news dealer, aren't certain how to act yet -- there haven't been enough movies about them -- but when they do get it all hardened into a New York shtick, I rather doubt that they're going to sound like the flight attendant of the month...