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Romance is a bruising, brutal—and even nausea-inducing—business in “Let’s Love!,” a flimsy and forgettable evening of three ostensibly comic short plays by Ethan Coen at the Atlantic Theater Company.

Tt’s not the only organization ostensibly created to help right-wingers punish their critics that has flopped in the past month.

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During the 1990s, Bill and Hillary Clinton fervently mapped out paths for poor women that would ostensibly make private enterprise the central solution to poverty.

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This is obviously false, given the marchers who have chanted antisemitic slogans across Britain for two years, ostensibly in protest of the war in Gaza.

Every rendezvous he manages is different: A brusque businessman wants to see his mother, ostensibly because an important document is missing.

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