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Getting the misery right

The death-circus surrounding the Bali executions has faint echoes of a famous musical

4 April 2015

9:00 AM

4 April 2015

9:00 AM

Oh what a circus, oh what a show! Argentina has gone to town, Over the death of an actress named Eva Perón. We’ve all gone crazy, Mourning all day and mourning all night, Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right!

The opening words of Tim Rice’s and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s fun funeral song from Evita could easily be appropriated for more contemporary, more local purposes.

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