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Turner, who exhibited an opéra bouffe appearance but was a slashing and dangerous player, had beaten Bobby in the previous year’s Rosenwald.

When the feast is finished, la grande bouffe is done and you can’t imagine ever eating another bite, not even a wafer-thin mint . . . well, you need another drink.

But 2½ hours of teenage insecurities turned into pop opéra bouffe make for a patience-trying endurance test for all but the most tolerant observers.

As scandals go, this was minor stuff — more opéra bouffe than outrage.

Here, it seemed, was the opéra bouffe climax of Mr. Trump’s campaign against the media, a bizarro-world spectacle that both encapsulated and parodied the president’s animus toward a major democratic institution.