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There is always the question in a show at least vestigially devoted to topical satire on how hard to poke the guest, and how much to flatter him.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2021

There’s something vestigially Hitchcockian in the elements of suspense and suspicion, of surveillance, fear, and paranoia.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2015

Crandon sent photos of Tara Lordi in Shanghai with a Chinese man, whom he still, vestigially, called “my partner”: “2 days after that photo, Chinese canceled our deal.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 7, 2015

Hungary was a vestigially feudal country when the Communists took it over in 1944 in their sweep toward Vienna.

From Time Magazine Archive