Word: tweedledum
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...more truly dreamlike oddness. But with the costumes and sets carefully and beautifully patterned on the Tenniel drawings, and with Richard Addinsell's generally agreeable music, this Alice is no mere theatrical makeshift, but genuine make-believe. Outstanding episodes: The Pool of Tears, the Trial Scene, and Tweedledum & Tweedledee (whose joint recital of The Walrus and the Carpenter is neatly acted out with marionettes). As Alice, Bambi Linn (Oklahoma!, Carousel) has a true childlike charm, a Tenniel look, and a big-eyed, brow-furrowed wonderment...
...Republicans are jubilant this morning, there is also a certain amount of grim satisfaction for the Roosevelt Democrat. For if the election proved anything, it has proved the factuousness of the Democratic hope of salvaging victory by playing tweedledum to the Republicans' tweedledee. With such figures as Henry Cabot Lodge, William Stratton and John W. Bricker representing the majority party in the Congress, the democratic party can furnish an effective opposition only by reassuming its liberal character and discarding the leadership of Bourbon Democrats and myopic members of the Truman coterie...
...results follow from the peculiarities of Bay State vote-getting. With such wide-spread hardening of the political arteries, the parties have been forced to find a modus vivendi. The patronage gets divvied up on a "love thy neighbor" basis, and campaign oratory frequently resembles nothing so much as Tweedledum denouncing Tweedledee...
...Tweedledum &Tweedledumber. Most U.S. readers will see in the struggle of Stalin and Trotsky a fight between ins & outs, a Tweedledum and Tweedledee dogfight for power, in which Trotsky, despite his brilliance, proved the Tweedledumber. The clash of their personalities, all but inevitable, was implicit even in the antagonists' physical appearance. Trotsky, haranguing his troops, his outsize, intellectual, goateed head cocked above his flaring military coat, looked like a blend of a broker who has just made a killing on the Paris bourse and an actor from the Yiddish Art Theater. Stalin, with his low forehead, ferally cautious manner...
...White Rabbit: I have the list of jurors: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, The White Knight...