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Anyway, Instinct is built around that theater standby, the series of charged encounters between a psychiatrist and a shackled patient, during which it dawns on the doctor (Cuba Gooding Jr.) that he and his society are the ones who are actually in need of curing.
The rejoinder Prudie suggests is, granted, an old standby, but it defuses the situation and everybody gets the message.
' Similarly, reverend means `one who is to be revered,' ordinand is `one who is to be ordained'; an old standby of crossword compilers, deodand , is a `thing to be given to God,' and legend is `something to be read.
Like a thinking man's Johnny Apple, he surveys various Kennedy and Johnson hacks--even tracking down that familiar standby, the unnamed "Washington veteran"--and reaps a harvest of self-congratulatory harrumphing along the lines of "I come from an era when loyalty and gratitude were regally honored," not like these young whippersnappers, etc.
Better a neat lie than a sloppy truth hints how rhyme, that proverbial standby, can get the better of reality.