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In an op-ed article Monday in the London Evening Standard , Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens said that the U.S. presidential election campaign owed its dreariness in part to manipulation by the professionals.
Chengde itself looks, at first glance, like any other northern Chinese industrial town, but the dreariness is interspersed with beautifully sited old temples and an imperial pleasure-ground big enough to be protected by a wall 10 km (6 miles) long.
It's a testament to the 1970s' cultural dreariness that even the good things about it--as Frum generously concedes, it was the best-ever decade for American movies--didn't become apparent until years afterward.
(Requisite example of dreariness: the multipart series on grains.)