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...speech-elaborately phrased, rich with allusions-sounds like another language amid the staccato din of the New Frontier's verbal shorthand. With his ironic, self-deprecating wit, he often appears to be some misplaced elfin uncle among the intense young men who laugh at their well-worn house jokes only rarely-and hardly ever at themselves...
...major issue of the campaign is "whether we will send someone to Washington who will support the national administration." The well-worn slogan "He can do more for Massachusetts" means to him, "I can do more for because I support a Democratic program, and a Democratic program does more for the people." Lodge interprets Ted's slogan in terms of who can attain more defense contracts for Massachusetts. He argues that two elected Kennedys can offer only mutual embarrassment, not mutual aid. But, even on Lodge's terms, will a President who appoints one brother Attorney General and permits another...
...about five minutes the getaway car rolls smoothly along the well-worn rut that cinema escapes almost invariably follow. But all at once the rut disappears and the signposts start to get confusing...
...TEMPTATION or DR. ANTONIO (Fellini ) thumbs the well-worn psychological text that outward prudishness masks inward prurience. Prim, black-suited Dr. Antonio (Peppino de Filippo) is a self-constituted one-man vice squad who sees signs of obscenity everywhere. One sign that puts him into a puritanical dither is a huge billboard featuring a slinkily gowned, reclining platinum blonde who holds a mammoth glass of milk in her hand and endorses the consumption of that beverage. "Take her down," says Dr. Antonio to snickering city officials and discreet church fathers. One night, as Dr. Antonio tramps obsessively around the sign...
Communist border guards even point the way to refugees clambering down the well-worn escape routes on precipitous Wu Tung Mountain outside Hong Kong...