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Bucking the consensus on The Ice Storm, the New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann excoriates director Ang Lee: "[E]verything in his directing, absolutely everything, is banal."
And why does Christopher Lasch's The New Radicalism in America --the classic indictment of the self-interest of the "concerned" classes, which excoriates progressive paternalism from Jane Addams to the Kennedy administration--leave a big hole where Eleanor should be, giving her a free pass?
An article excoriates U.N.
Earl Grinols of the University of Illinois excoriates them as "a shell game, attracting dollars from one person's pocket to another and from one region to another."
--a no-win question about the woman Morris excoriates elsewhere on the site--it asks no similarly rigged question about Mrs. Clinton's opponent, Rudy Giuliani.