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...anniversary celebration was filled with testimony from countless women who echo these sentiments--women who still treasure their first, now well-worn and tattered copy of the book and can remember vividly how they first came to own it. These same women are now purchasing their commemorative 25th editions, with updated information on new areas of study such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Today, while the Women's Health Movement still faces challenges worldwide, on this anniversary of the beginning of this movement we should salute the Boston women who started the revolution...
...contains some organic character, an affinity to life and therefore to change. "I never seek what to make a pure or abstract form," Brancusi said. "Timelessness,'' "wholeness,'' "essence,'' "aliveness": such words inescapably recur in what has been written about him over the past 70 or 80 years. They are well-worn tokens, rubbed smooth by use, but you can't visit the Brancusi retrospective that is now in its last weeks at the Philadelphia Museum of Art without feeling how his work revives them...
...thriller sends the well-worn message--and any budding young Clancy will tell you that a message of some sort is advisable, if not down-right moral--that the world always remains just a skilled hacker's keystroke away from complete annihilation by large balls of fire and other painful things...
...latter ventures no further than things liberals love to hate. He takes us through thirty years of headline news and hot-button issues with takes that are equally well-worn. Standard fare, for instance, asks why John Hinckley was dubbed insane. After all, he wanted to shoot Reagan and date Jodie Foster. Other subjects include abortion doctor assassin John Hill, white guys with pent-up hostilty, and, of course...
Farces as a rule employ well-worn props. Even so, Moon over Buffalo has an especially familiar feel. To see it once is almost to see it twice, given how much daje vu is involved. You recognize this comic turn from Kiss Me, Kate, that one from a Preston Sturges film. But Ludwig has a gift for making the conventional convivial. Whether you know it or not, you have spent your share of mornings in '50s Buffalo. And you had a good time there...