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Following the resignation of Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto after a drubbing in elections for the Upper House, Japan's best-selling newspaper, Asahi Shimbun, said in an editorial Monday that "the change is cataclysmic" and called on the next prime minister to dissolve the Lower House to permit a general election.
Mondrian's later offerings came in for a drubbing, though his early representational work appears popular.
Considering the drubbing given the original--a 1994 French comedy titled Little Indian, Big City --reception of the Disney remake seems almost positive.
While engaging in his regular drubbing of Bill Clinton, William Safire today along the way actually gives him some very practical advice: under pain of a Senate trial, sign a very tough censure deal, and pay off everybody's legal fees by auctioning off the pen.
The papers read the Japanese returns--described by USAT and the Wall Street Journal as "stunning" and by the NYT as a "brutal drubbing"--as the electorate's impatience with Hashimoto's ineffectual response to Japan's worse recession in fifty years.