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So why do we still read him, and why do so many people still flock to his plays, despite their archaisms lichened with footnotes and, to citizens of our ironic century, his easily parodied apostrophizing?

Both thereby apostrophize America’s original sin and permanent crisis: the otherizing of the not white, regardless of gradations.

She revealed this with a sense of embarrassment at her own wistfulness — her dreamy nostalgia evoking Beckett’s Winnie, who leans back in her mound and apostrophizes the “old style.”

Ali Tepelena, once apostrophized by Byron, was real; Albania certainly exists.

Rather than apostrophizing and examining the sexist and homophobic attitudes of the macho private eye from its classic incarnations, it serves them up straight with a twist of heroism.