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"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.
The Weekly Standard 's Christopher Caldwell bashes the New York Times Book Review . Its critics are mostly second-rate novelists who write turgid prose and "rave about demonstrably bad books."
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?
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."
A piece on the front page of the LAT bashes President Clinton's State of the Union promise to use $4 billion in government funds to bridge the so-called Digital Divide between wired haves and unwired have-nots.