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Critics praise it for bucking Broadway trends: It is both low-budget and brainy (one of its goals is to mock Enlightenment rationality).
Robert Redford wins praise for bucking Hollywood formula and directing a movie "so chaste and so conservative, it's practically Republican" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Redford plays a cowboy who rehabilitates an injured horse and falls in love with its married owner (Kirstin Scott Thomas).
Meanwhile, says the paper, Hussein made a statement on Iraqi television that appeared to be bucking up his countrymen to continue the impasse.
Bucking his colleagues, Pittsburgh Medical Examiner Cyril Wecht says that multiple SIDS deaths in one family do not automatically mean murder.
It takes at least three days to go downriver from Chongqing to Wuhan, and as many as five days in the reverse direction, bucking the considerable tide.