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Over the years, their lobbies have been effective at working with local cranks to regulate the minutiae of the wine business.
On the whole, despite the preliminary screening that callers are subjected to, mainly in order to eliminate cranks, drunks, and undesirables, those who do get through rarely have anything of moment to contribute, the presenters are notably unsympathetic in eliciting a fair exposure of their comments, and the listener is (too) often left with the feeling that the presenter has been too dismissive.
Penderecki cranks up 19 th -century Baroque-style rhetoric into something both stentorian and shrill.
When you consider how large a role economics plays in our national debate--and how much of the public discussion of economics is dominated by cranks and poseurs--seeing a serious economist like Barro get offered what is still, by private sector standards, a fairly modest paycheck doesn't seem particularly out of line.
In addition to Denby at New York magazine, the legion of honorable cranks includes Anthony Lane of The New Yorker and Stanley Kauffmann of the New Republic . These are writers of widely divergent disposition.