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Reading Loury's dissertation today, 22 years after he wrote it, is a depressing experience--precisely because the essays were so good and remain so relevant.
The LAT lead story focuses on Kiriyenko's depressing announcement Friday that Russia's debts have reached 44 percent of gross domestic product.
We've shown that nicotine helps to normalize that signaling by depressing the background but letting the bursts through well,” he says.
Some critics are fascinated by the new possibilities opened up by this license and call the film "one of the more original movies of the year" (David Denby, New York ). Others are uneasy about the intimate, sad, and somewhat mocking portraits that emerge of these deeply flawed and lonely individuals and call the film "depressing and undeniably cruel" (Anita Gates, the New York Times ). (Read Slate 's David Edelstein on Barker's quest for "larger dramatic truths."
What's depressing is critics who celebrate a movie like this for its commercial, rather than its aesthetic, triumphs.