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...HOPE, DOWN WITH DOPE and joined other demonstrators on streets where the heaviest dealing happened. Stansbury got the town council to designate "downtown" Taylor as a historic district, which meant a ban on the public consumption of alcohol. The group even persuaded the Texas National Guard to bulldoze 48 worn-out buildings near the railroad tracks that had become weekend squats for drug dealers and their customers, who used to come in by car and train. Taylor these days is more like it used to be. "I can sit on my porch anytime now,'' says Mae Willie Turner...
...ignore for a moment the worn-out argument that right-wing hegemony in the Senate has led to a policy of coupling spendthrift defense spending with the broad elimination of spending on social programs. Let us instead consider the bill on its own terms; assuming that such a military budget is necessary in today's global climate, to what extent do measures called for fulfill our strategic interests...
...After all, why come up with a new idea if you can get a last gasp of life out of an old hackneyed one? The success of "Wayne's World," "The Addams Family" and "The Fugitive" jolted Hollywood executives to the sudden realization that a whole unexplored world of worn-out premises was there for the taking, in the vaults where old TV shows...
...following this logic, voting in a national election is also empty symbolism, since the ballot of one person is unlikely to affect the results. It is a worn-out cliche that individual voices must be raised in order to produce a collective yell...
...world -- the one of current Hollywood movies and TV shows -- is in disrepair. In its tatty bazaar, peddlers hawk worn-out notions as if the items held their former glamour. Hoary formulas (sci-fi, sitcom) near exhaustion, and a smoggy dusk shrouds the industry like crape...