That kind of move is likely to result in the kind of strained relations with the rest of Europe that would make structural funds a fantasy and possibility put the country firmly on track for an exit from the currency within a few months.

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That wish for a benevolent and omniprotective parent was a political and emotional fantasy, as Roth himself ruefully understood but perhaps also an inescapable fantasy of a kind that all of us at some level share.

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The notion of a bored Manhattan wife being hit on by a uniformed Russian brute is just the kind of solid, old-fashioned fantasy that Madonna, in her corseted pomp, would have fed into a pop video.

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