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parlous

To date, Sanders’s most public, but also most parlous, statements on his own Semitism occurred in the first two of his two-person debates with Hillary

—p.107 Exit Bernie (99) by Joshua Cohen
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empyrean

dwell instead amid the empyrean of the unmentionable

—p.99 Exit Bernie (99) by Joshua Cohen
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at the very end of the Boardwalk

I FOUND MYSELF—AMERICA finds itself now—at the very end of the Boardwalk. The very end of this immigrant’s midway lined with cheap thrills and junk concessions, pulsating with tawdry neon and clamoring moronically. The end of this corny, schmaltzy Trumpian thoroughfare that entertains us with its p…

—p.90 The Last Last Summer: On Donald Trump and the Fall of Atlantic City (55) by Joshua Cohen
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casino-hotel-resort properties

HE GOVERNMENTS THAT GET THEMED into casino-hotel-resort properties tend not to be democracies, but oligarchies, aristocracies, monarchies, Africa-and-Asia-devouring empires. Pharaonic Egypt, Doge-age Venice, imperial Rome, Mughal India. Atlantic City has incarnations of the latter two—Caesars Atlan…

—p.55 The Last Last Summer: On Donald Trump and the Fall of Atlantic City (55) by Joshua Cohen
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they had this mutual respect

And to a large degree the cynical side of me goes, Yeah yeah, America doesn’t deserve a Ringling Bros. It really doesn’t. Because for 146 years we’ve been teaching you. Yeah. How we can all live together, how we can all work together, to make something beautiful. How every person matters, every job…

—p.52 It’s a Circle: On the Closing of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (29) by Joshua Cohen