Word: rehashed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Married a Witch (Columbia; Michael Grais and Mark Victor) The writers of Poltergeist I and II want to capture the spirit yet again. But this one sounds like a feature-length Bewitched rehash. And probably not as funny...
...antiquity" of the 1920s was not simply a rehash of the antiquity venerated by neoclassicists a century before. Provincial antiquity seemed less mined out and more alive than mainstream classicism. Thus in Italy -- Massimo Campigli's painting, for instance, or Marino Marini's sculpture -- the % emphasis shifted from Roman marbles and Greek urns to the rougher, more vital- looking frescoes and terra-cottas of the Etruscans. The idea was to recapture a sense of antiquity that connoted a spirit of place, an Arcadian flavor, more Hesiodic than Augustan...
...those dark and chilly cold war years, the mysterious taboo surrounding the communist world fascinated me, and I took to monitoring these stations with a passion. Why settle for a bland rehash of the CBS Evening News spouted by Voice of America bureaucrats when you can hear news from the Evil Empire itself? With the secret fervor of a teenager sneaking his first drink of alcohol. I listened to the dark echoey voices of Bulgarian news broadcasters parroting the party line, the cheerful banter of Radio Habana Cuba's hosts touting the glories of the revolution...