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… A piece ridicules "fauxhemians"--rich folks who dress up conspicuous consumption "in the artfully tattered guise of the downscale and democratic."
It was a pretty dismaying experience, straight out of Les Misérables : the tattered crowd, the forest of groping hands, the healthy-looking young guys who conned their way to seconds or thirds while the quiet or confused went home empty-handed.
And in 1963, 36 years ago, Martin Lipset wrote a book about our founding called The First New Nation . So new is obviously a tattered, tired old term.
Bill Kristol says Bennett is speaking for other conservatives who worry that Gingrich's image is so tattered, he's being forced to soften his partisan edge.
Meanwhile, what do you suppose the cook told his family that night when they asked why he was so tattered and scratched: “You'll never guess what that crazy missionary asked me to do today!”