Word: exile
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...attracting talent to himself at Harvard, Ed King was proving an irresistible lure for incompetents and their predators in the statehouse. Leftovers from Dukakis' time, realizing how good things had been in the "bad old days," leaked embarrassing material on their clown-king, channeling it through Dukakis' government-in-exil e to the Boston Globe. The bad people were undoing Dukakis' reforms, and he went after them with his first ferocity, encouraging the leaks, playing up the grudge match he would win with King...
...there is still, always, the reassurance of the last scenes: the hellhound turns and meets his end, the new king comes to the throne intent on the needed repairs "of calling home our exil'd friends abroad, That fled the snares of watchful tyranny," and mending his country.--But this is a good enough production to let the words get beyond it: there's no need to Macbirden it more with any newer meanings...
Daudet's first success, "Risler aine," shows the influence of Flaubert. In the "Nabab" and in "Les Rois en exil," not the customs of France, but the life of a cosmopolitan public is depicted. It is in "Numa Roumestan," in the "Tartarius," and especially in his marvelous short stories that we get a picture of life and manners in Southern France...
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