Erstwhile crowdpleaser Peter Chelsom (Hear My Song) still knows how to frame a good gag, but precious few emerge in a draggy travelogue that, astonishingly, feels scarcely more substantial than Eat Pray Love.
This is what you're hearing, for example, from erstwhile respectable Republican economists, who have (surprise!) mostly fallen in line as the crisis looms.
By ignoring the issues which cause us political discomfort, we simply confirm to our erstwhile supporters that we hear only what we want to.
Mr. Booker, the man who ignited the failed electoral uprising here, has himself largely escaped any backlash, although he says he is pained by the stories he hears from erstwhile supporters.
New cars and houses make us happier for short, bright bursts before we revert to our default level of contentment, and their erstwhile pleasures soon slip by unnoticed in the same way that we quickly stop hearing the sound of air-conditioning in a room.
Last week, listeners who alighted on 660 AM, or on several dozen other stations around the country that had carried Imus, experienced the odd sensation of hearing Mike and the Mad Dog, with the help of Imus's erstwhile sidekick Charles McCord, dissect the news from the front page as well as the back.
And they are, although it may be blowing a whistle heard only by the Bagger and his erstwhile source, another in a series of people who would not be quoted by name even if it would end world hunger.
11 Oct Julian Casablancas and The Voidz Last heard mumbling unintelligibly on Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, the erstwhile Strokes frontman now sounds comprehensively fried.
But we have heard from the likes of Joseph ZigZagg" Marzah, one of Taylor's erstwhile military commanders, who in five hours of astonishing testimony in 2008 claimed, "We executed everybody – babies, women, old men.
This month, a small group showed up to hear Rab Wilson, a Scottish lyricist, read his 15-sonnet tribute to the erstwhile Flying Scot, a legendary roadster.
