It is the party, or pretty much what remains of it in the Barack Obama era.
The French called this area La Perle de la Côte d'Agathe - and that's pretty much what it remains.
A trenchcoated Robert Mitchum, for instance, sauntered through the villainous Europe of "Foreign Intrigue" (1956), but his saunter is pretty much all that remains; the rest of the movie was forgettable to start with.
The sun has lost 50 to 75percentt of its strength, an immense sinkhole threatens to swallow up pretty much everything that remains, and the royal palace is a royal shambles.
Despite Mr. Cohen's witty reflections on violence as spectacle, the history of anti-Semitism, the immutability of prejudice, the rivalry of academia and the stagnancy of marriage, among other subjects, a meticulously researched lecture is pretty much what this remains.
With Mr. Eifman's amateurish rendering of "Eugene Onegin," pretty much all that remains are the characters: Tatyana, the shy heroine in love with the haughty Onegin; her spirited sister, Olga and Olgaa's fiancé, Lensky, who delivers split jumps while clutching his guitar.
All this technical complexity remains pretty much invisible, however.
The emotional pitch remains pretty much the same.
But touchingly, really, Nancy's admiration remains pretty much undimmed.
Unreality remains pretty much the same, and its appeal in politics is as strong as ever.
