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Critics say this murder-filled comedy-noir strains to be funny and off the wall but fails royally on both counts: It has an "offbeat eccentricity that feels like the comic equivalent of silicone implants" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). The ensemble cast includes Ellen DeGeneres, Patricia Arquette, and Don Johnson, and none performs well in critics' eyes.
Also, in a section best described as “Webster-bashing,” Bryson fails to mention Joseph Emerson Worcester and his competing dictionaries, in some ways superior to Webster's, and I cannot agree with the comment [p.
The island fails to live up to its colorful past.
In short, an examination of the language of the presence requirement and the statutory context in which it arises raises a number of interpretive problems and fails to resolve the question of when an alien must be present in the United States in order to be entitled to legal services representation.
Another aspect of our future that he mentions, but fails to really investigate, is his criticism of "groups" ("blacks," hippies, women, etc.) and his sense that a cultural fissure is appearing between young and old.