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Usage for philistine


“In terms of modernism, or postmodernism, or post-postmodernism, I tend to be a bit of a philistine,” Mr. Harrigan explained. “In reading and in art, I'm always drawn to what seems to be perpetually unfashionable: a narrative, a plot, a story, ...

In Woody Allen's best movie since Match Point, Midnight in Paris (opening Friday), frustrated American screenwriter Gil (Owen Wilson) yearns to escape a horrible pending marriage to the philistine daughter of a right-wing tycoon. ...


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