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The hype commences, with critics pronouncing Steven Spielberg's World War II epic "a movie of staggering virtuosity" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Reviews dwell on the gory 25 minute opening battle scene, emblematic of Spielberg's new obsession with verisimilitude: "[O]ne of the greatest, most appalling things ever done in movies" (David Denby, New York ). Applause also goes to Spielberg for bucking war movie typecasting with Everyman Tom Hanks and such unmacho hunks as Matt Damon and Edward Burns.
All over the world, people are subjected daily to the most appalling humiliations--their bodies and possessions searched, their livelihoods threatened, their very safety jeopardized--by obnoxious, petty, corrupt representatives of brutal, repressive regimes.
The tribute to his father is touching and well-deserved, but his views on the estate tax are appalling.
City, state, and national officials demanded to know how a medical facility could maintain such an appalling policy.
Roger Altman is a former deputy treasury secretary and continuing Clinton intimate whose investment company, Evercore Partners, owns American Media, which in turn owns the National Enquirer , the Star , and--most appalling of all, because it is so clearly the most nutty tabloid in America--the Weekly World News .