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Often the joke is achieved by a po-faced conjunction of the grandiloquent and the thumpingly mundane. That fascination has always existed but was exacerbated by the Watergate affair, specifically by its amazingly complete and satisfying dramatic arc--its obscure, sinister beginning (a nocturnal burglary), its amazing development and outrageous cast of characters, and its thumpingly dramatic finish with Nixon boarding that plane and waving goodbye. |
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