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When a nation's best-educated citizens and professional wordsmiths can unblushingly commit blunders such as these, is it any wonder that public discourse so often degenerates into slanging matches and the bitter exchange of empty slogans?
Carrey, playing a sleazy lawyer forced to tell the truth for a day, "removes the rubber nose and plays a realistic human being" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). But the film still relies on Carrey's "kamikaze elan" to overcome its meager premise ("[a] one joke movie"--Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). And The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane says director Tom Shadyac ( The Nutty Professor ) blunders in choosing, midfilm, "to calm down the proceedings, [so that] our poor hero is reduced to saying therapeutic things like ...
It called this a "success" to be weighed against NATO's continuing "blunders."
Other issues: various Gore campaign blunders and the Reform Party leadership convention (really just another excuse to interview Minnesota Gov.
People without lexicographic training who undertake to compile a dictionary run the risk of committing innumerable blunders of the kind that only the seasoned professional knows how to avoid.