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David Foster Wallace bashes Updike's Toward the End of Time in the New York Observer : "[S]o mind-bendingly clunky and self-indulgent that it's hard to believe the author let it be published in this kind of shape."
Didn't you love the Whomping Willow, the tree on the school grounds that bashes any creature fool enough to touch it, and Peeves, the school poltergeist, whom everyone treats with irritated toleration?
The New Republic 's Jed Perl bashes the newly opened J. Paul Getty Museum, designed by Richard Meier, whose architecture, says Perl, "only works in coffee-table books.
The criticism is plainly disingenuous: In two of his last three chapters, Buchanan bashes Jewish and Mexican-Americans for speaking up on behalf of Israel and Mexico.
"The Great Equivocator" bashes CIA Director-nominee Anthony Lake as too wishy-washy to head the agency: He was soft toward the Soviets during the Cold War, he's soft toward the Chinese now, and he's scared of using force to achieve foreign-policy goals.