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The three-candidate runoff that results is a loose parody of the '96 presidential election, which makes for "a moral fable with rare comic bite" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ). ( Slate 's David Edelstein the film "exuberantly caustic."
Alec makes news with his caustic condemnations: He called Newt Gingrich "evil" and Alfonse D'Amato "the bozo pool attendant from Island Park."
of a father selling his son's body is too outré to have much resonance" (Rafferty, The New Yorker ). Arteta, however, receives praise for his "realistic" style and "flair for caustic storytelling" (Maslin, New York Times ). "Star Maps signals the arrival of a potentially major new talent," says Newsday 's Jack Mathews.
"The most groundbreaking kitchen-sink sitcom since All in the Family ," declares Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly . Most agree, however, that the show declined in its last years, especially after Roseanne's character won the lottery and the family forsook its proletarian roots--while the actress herself mutated from caustic social critic into pop icon.
The forays into science fiction are said to have "the unfortunate effect of liberating all [Vidal's] worst artistic impulses" (James Bowman, the Wall Street Journal ). Vidal does win praise for caustic portrayals of dead presidents--with all the "freaks and foibles"--of the sort he has brought to his other historical fiction (Christopher Benfey, the New York Times Book Review ).