Martin hardly invented this attitude: he is simply reiterating what has become the reflexive consensus on the show, right down to the hackneyed "Golden Girls" gag.
At the same time, America will need a political strategy that consists of more than simply reiterating support for the Iraqi government or maneuvering to replace it with another.
The caricatures of Jews propagated by the Dreyfus Affair around the turn of the century and by the German press in the nineteen-thirties were driven by pure hatred; Fitzgerald was simply reiterating a familiar physiognomic code.
As the film goes on to explore his extreme case of survivor's guilt after the war, it poses familiar questions about who is sane in an insane world and assumes that simply reiterating those questions will suffice.
The Supreme Court could decide the case by simply reiterating its position in the decision on the Dirks case about gifts between family members, which would not require proving anything of monetary value passed between the tipper and tippee.
Despite Mr. Goldblum's "tour-de-force performance," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times last year, the film "poses familiar questions about who is sane in an insane world and assumes that simply reiterating those questions will suffice".
