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...actually emerged victorious in a state, they nevertheless laugh off the fact that he does not stand a real chance, and that at least he adds some excitement to what would otherwise be a boring showdown between the uncharged and uncharismatic former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander and the wornout and politically mechanical Dole...
...France's King Louis Philippe in 1848, she confides to a friend that she sympathizes with the revolutionaries. To her, Victoria Regina is "our little humbug of a queen," and she suggests that the world's monarchs should be put into "a sort of Zoological Garden, where these wornout humbugs may be preserved...
...arts and literature, which most Chinese will clearly welcome. When copies of a Chinese translation of Hamlet appeared in a shop on Peking's Wang Fu Ching Street recently, they attracted a queue of buyers that stretched 100 yds. Official journals have railed against "stereotyped writing" and "wornout themes," authorities are again permitting the old customs of ballad singing and storytelling, and movies like the anti-Japanese war film On the Sungari River, banned since the mid-1960s, can again be seen. In general, the Chinese press has gone to great lengths to portray the entire 17-year period...
...compares "Ragazzi di vita" (also written in the fifties) to "La Divina Mimesis," a parody of the Divine Comedy he was working on at his death. Pasolini always wrote in parables, but in his later work his symbols become estranged from any reality. "The Divine Mimesis" is full of wornout catchphrases of the Italian left; the souls Pasolini-Dante meets in his Inferno are "conformisti piccolo-borghesi" (petit-bourgeois conformists), and their sins are "il conformismo," "la volgarita," "la moralita." Pasolini always had a fondness for the antithesis, for the oxymoron; but in his recent writings the language degenerates into...
...Wilbur Theatre, heavy-handed music filled the theatre during the intermission and at the end of the play. "Help, I need somebody," "Yesterday came suddenly," sang the Beatles. "Bye, bye, Miss American pie," sang Don MacLean. Robert Patrick, who in press photographs wears a Wallace Beery shirt and wornout overalls, pranced around in a white satin workshirt watching his play, along with a suit-and-tie audience whose mean...