Word: slavishly
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...shown that he "gets" the basics: that voters are worried about crime, for example, and that they hate to pay taxes. If there's anything major he doesn't "get," it's that in a hyperdemocracy, "getting it" can be self-defeating. The voters demand slavish obedience, but the more they receive it, the less they respect it. Has this sort of disrespect reached such a level as to be actually auspicious for a politician who leads rather than follows? It is hard to say. Few politicians seem inclined to conduct the experiment...
Actually, preferring reason to slavish adherence to principle, I would advocate respecting the traditions both of Radcliffe and the final clubs. Unfortunately, that is wildly un-p.c. E. L. Pattullo Center for the Behavioral sciences
...Wilder first envisioned beginning in a morgue with sheet-covered bodies speaking in voice-over. Although that scene did not wind up in the movie, it helps explain why Sunset Boulevard can be called the film that invented camp. Egomaniacal Norma, her slavish chauffeur Max (who turns out to be her former director and ex-husband) and down-and-out screenwriter Joe Gillis, who falls into her orbit out of sympathy and a love of luxury, are all a bit ridiculous. Where the London staging took them seriously, the Los Angeles rethink sends them up. Yet it wisely manages...
...dislike, and why. There are probably several thousand such publications devoted to one or another flavor of what I've been calling "underground rock," and 10 or 12 that I read "religiously"; the few zines I'm going to talk about here are distinguished not so much for their slavish reflections of my particular taste, but for their widespread availability (i.e. you could walk into Newbury Comics or In Your Ear or even Tower Records and buy one); their breadth (i.e. there are lots of bands and records covered in each issue); and their high entertainment value...
...Sons of Liberty stage the Boston Tea Party in vain; did they throw off slavish devotion to one country's brewed beverage only to have their descendants pledge allegiance to another? If we are to save the Square--nay, the Nation--from the advancing tide of coffee snobbery, we have little choice. We must dress up as Brits, board the next steamer in from Zimbabwe or Colombia and hurl the sacks of the offending gourmet bean into the Boston Harbor...