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I didn't like the way he sold out his own legacy of decent, moderate Republicanism for an ersatz, anti-government populism.
It was Sinatra's Pack's bad-boy behavior the late-'90s ersatz swells are celebrating, not the fine tailoring on his three-button suits.
The paper's tone was more funeral dirge than rallying cry: "One of the more regrettable consumer fads of the 1990s has been the invasion of ersatz American-style coffee bars, all stainless steel and froth and cool.
There, some of the world's most pretentious and absurd architecture beckons visitors from around the world to see such sights as in-house acrobats or an art museum, a battle of full-size pirate ships, or to tour an ersatz Paris, Egypt or other improbable replication.
The Seattle Scandinavians were ersatz Norsemen, blond socialists who thought the basis of civilization was an upper tax rate of 90 percent, dreary porno movies, and their all-purpose greeting "uff da," which, translated, means, "I've fallen from grace and I can't get up."