"rerun of a bad movie"

[victor steinbok]

Sorry, accidentally sent it when I meant to save.

There are about 94 actual hits in GNA with the earliest from 1968,
even though it initially claims "0 hits". So no antedating of the 1967
book.

Also, 5 hits for "bad movie rerun", with 1 overlap (Bush II).

VS-)

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:06 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Vietnam story, like a rerun of a bad movie, is repeating itself across the border in Cambodia.
>
> Dec 28, 1971, St. Pet. Times
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> There are several other hits for Vietnam, some sports metaphors.
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>> With less than 30 seconds remaining against the Atlanta Hawks, the Washington Bullets were beginning to think they were watching the 10th rerun of a bad movie.
>
> Dec 29, 1992, Albany Herald (AP story on Washington Bullets snapping a
> 9-game losing streak--hence "10th rerun")
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>> For the New York Mets, it was like a rerun of a bad movie.
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> Oct 19, 1986Toronto Star [On the 1986 World Series opener]
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> VS-)
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> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> YBQ credits George W. Bush with having compared the alleged machinations
>> of Saddam Hussein as "a rerun of a bad movie."
>>
>> He may have been the first to apply the words to Iraq, but GB turns up more
>> than fifty earlier exx. of the metaphor.
>>
>> Earliest and most notable is from NYT journalist Harrison Salisbury's _Orbit
>> of China_ (N.Y.: Harper, 1967), p. 177: "[T]he clamping down on sources of
>> conflicting opinion; the closing of windows through which a clear view of
>> the real world could be obtained, what was happening in China seemed like
>> the rerun of a bad movie."
>>
>> JL:
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