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Reviewers say the show is long on pop-culture allusions and short on psychological acumen.
The younger Bush's constant assurances that he's going to unveil his "10-point plans" and "specific incentives" any day now--a vague pledge to be specific--are the functional equivalent of his father's constant allusions to "vision."
Costumes have more scope, however; some tend toward approximations of current fashion, with many ponytails, little bandeaux under boleros, and several bare midriffs, along with S&M trappings in better or worse arrangements, and a range of recent and remote historical allusions.
Some praise director Guillermo Del Toro for manipulating Gothic conventions and sprinkling the film with Catholic imagery and allusions to classic films.
Tolstoy's rendering of Anna Karenina's magic in her black ball gown, or of Princess Betsy's décolletage at the theater, stand out as examples, along with Henry James' magnificent glancing allusions to the emotional power generated by a rustle, a ribbon, the drawing on of a pair of gloves.