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Most critics come down hard: Newsweek 's Gates says "it's mostly midtempo mush," and Entertainment Weekly 's David Browne detects a "whiff of desperation" on the record.
Milosevic's "purported acceptance" of the G-8 "general principles" is "meaningless in itself, notable only as a hint of desperation," it said in an editorial.
). VandeHei's thesis is that these are such "desperate times" for House Republicans that they are sifting through the dregs, dragging in "desperation candidates" from the ranks of celebrities.
The 39-year-old diva thus recovers from an early-'90s "creative nadir"-- Erotica and Sex --that "reeked of heat-seeking desperation" (David Browne, Entertainment Weekly ). (Audio clips are available here.)
A) Red light; offenses include "strong focus on nuclear warfare and the nihilistic desperation of it ...