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Supplantation

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Sup`plan`ta´tion
n.1.The act of supplanting or displacing.
Habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness.
- Cloeridge.


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This supplantation of spectator by actor is framed in It Starts at Home within a story line of commercialization and sellout, in which Bob, a stereotypical television producer who is perpetually on the phone and consists of nothing but a hairpiece that somehow manages to smoke a cigar and talk, attempts to aggres-sively promote The Mike Show as Mike himself enacts fantasies of the alluring televisual characters he might become.
Declining demand for paperboard containers will result from continued supplantation of gabletop cartons by bottles and aseptic boxes by pouches.
There remains some concern that a hostile and irresponsible Congress could play games with succession in order to put one of its presiding officers in charge, either through impeachment or some other outlandish scheme involving congressional supplantation (Silva 1968, 156-59; Amar and Amar 1995, 12124; Calabresi 1995, 167-68; Cinquegrana 1992, 117-19).
 
 
 
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