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I believe in the government institutions that make us a union of states rather than a pastiche of fiefdoms.

Holmes has long been the subject of pastiches and parodies and post-Conan Doyle excursions on the page and on the screen — hundreds of them, I’d wager, not that I’m going to count.

“It’s not pastiche anymore; it’s its own thing,” he notes, “ which is really thrilling.”

Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.

“A Working Man” opens with a batty pastiche of bullets and buzz saws, parachutes and cranes.