His wife of 61 years, Rosie, made us coffee and served it out of an old- school Farberware electric percolator.

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But even under her, government worked rather like a coffee percolator.

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This is the state of marketing today, which is that an idea can be at once an awareness generating machine, a store, and a percolator of buzz worldwide.

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