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  • Speaking of horror, director Garry Marshall's latest atrocity, "Valentine's Day," might be described as a Repression-Era Special — an econo-pak of Hollywood second - and third-stringers, a couple of genuine stars (Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts), and a couple of annoying movie kids brought together by a poverty of ideas and a director whose only apparent instruction to his cast was "Act like the people in TV commercials."

    'Wolfman' Chases Its Tail John Anderson 2010

  • Speaking of horror, director Garry Marshall's latest atrocity, "Valentine's Day," might be described as a Repression-Era Special — an econo-pak of Hollywood second - and third-stringers, a couple of genuine stars (Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts), and a couple of annoying movie kids brought together by a poverty of ideas and a director whose only apparent instruction to his cast was "Act like the people in TV commercials."

    'Wolfman' Chases Its Tail John Anderson 2010

  • Speaking of horror, director Garry Marshall's latest atrocity, "Valentine's Day," might be described as a Repression-Era Special — an econo-pak of Hollywood second - and third-stringers, a couple of genuine stars (Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts), and a couple of annoying movie kids brought together by a poverty of ideas and a director whose only apparent instruction to his cast was "Act like the people in TV commercials."

    'Wolfman' Chases Its Tail John Anderson 2010

  • I've never been afraid of big government, but The Repression is a great opportunity for the public sector to overstep its boundaries.

    Don McNay: The Great Repression 2009

  • Repression, that is to say, was the one resource that occurred to the mind of the chief executive and to the majority of the men of his day.

    The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley

  • We're in a "Repression": The Economics of Shame digg

    James Rotondi: We're in a "Repression": The Economics of Shame 2009

  • "Repression" in India, whether of the seditious press, or of secret societies, or of unlawful meetings, means nothing more cruel or oppressive than the application of surgery to diseased growths which threaten to infect the whole organism -- and especially so immature and sensitive an organism as the semi-Westernized, semi-educated section of Indian society to-day represents.

    Indian Unrest Valentine Chirol 1890

  • 'Repression' is just an American reality by Ed Tant

    The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy Bill Berkowitz 2009

  • 'Repression' is just an American reality by Ed Tant

    The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy 2009

  • Lea Lane: Sole Supporters Enduring this "Repression"

    Lea Lane: Sole Supporters Enduring this "Repression" 2009

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