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"In 1997," Rafferty writes, "independent movie after independent movie arrived in theaters on waves of critical admiration, and moviegoers unaccustomed to the peculiar moral universe of indie-ness must have emerged from these experiences deeply perplexed: wondering, perhaps, how the reviewers who carped about studio films like Steven Spielberg's majestic, flawed Amistad could embrace wholeheartedly stuff as dubious as Deconstructing Harry , The Sweet Hereafter , Boogie Nights , [and] In the Company of Men ." Rafferty correctly identifies indie film's "air of smugness."
Lewis portrays SNCC's Atlanta branch as being made up of well-off Negroes who carped all the time.
"It is a terrible sign of intellectual and religious confusion," carped Elliott Abrams, author of Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America . "Each of these religions must remain an immutable hodgepodge of customs, superstitions, and prejudices," he did not add.