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This fall, Goldhagen's supporters and detractors will have another chance to duke it out when he comes up for tenure in the Harvard government department.
Detractors use these terms to portray Putin as a Cold Warrior who can't be trusted with Russia's nukes.
Detractors say the film lacks any real sense of narrative continuity and feels like "bits and pieces of half a dozen coming-of-age films" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ).
And the tired excoriation of the press: "To my detractors and the naysayers out there, otherwise known as "talking heads," or "kibitzers," I say, bah humbug!"
And they eventually seem to concur in their wistful conclusion that if Celebration is a bit of a corporate harlot, it yet has a heart of gold, or at least of honest brass, and does not deserve the easy contempt of its oh-so-sophisticated detractors.