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  • George Costanza is the character Jason Alexander played in the situation comedy

    ALCS notebook 2000

  • To paraphrase Costanza – If I believe they are correct, they are correct.

    Black Market Kidneys » This Is The First Day Of My Life 2005

  • To paraphrase Costanza – If I believe they are correct, they are correct.

    Black Market Kidneys » 2005 » June 2005

  • The strongest argument for the stimulus (and the one that I think, in their heart-of-hearts, most supporters actually hold) is what could be called the Costanza-Hoover Principle: do the opposite of whatever Herbert Hoover did.

    The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan 2009

  • The D's should pull a "Costanza" and do the opposite of what the media wants.

    More Hot Color From White House Meeting Between Bush And Congressional Dems! 2009

  • It’s now called Costanza, and by all accounts it’s still pretty awful.

    Ovid Sam Jordison 2005

  • It’s now called Costanza, and by all accounts it’s still pretty awful.

    Archive 2005-09-01 Sam Jordison 2005

  • John "Costanza" Torres -- who is far worse -- was running the show and was designated by Myers and Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff to be Myers 'interim replacement at ICE.

    Debbie Schlussel 2008

  • The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli).

    The Heirloom City Dan Hofstadter 2011

  • Mr. Sellars apparently updated the opera to modern New Mexico: Clues were Costanza's lavish, ruffled quinceanera dress; the mint-green tuxedo worn by Corrado, one of Gualtiero's followers; and Griselda's patterned blanket, donned during her homeless phase.

    The Tests of Patience Heidi Waleson 2011

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