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Clinton criticized the military bill for including budget gimmicks and pork-barrel projects but said that he could not "allow our national security needs to be held hostage by this budget battle."
"Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...
But Run Lola Run is more than the sum of its gimmicks: It has a real worldview.
What gimmicks are they employing these days to stave off the Angel of Death?
Most of today's so-called "director's cuts" are marketing gimmicks, but the people behind this one--producer Rick Schmidlin, editor Walter Murch, and critic/consultant Jonathan Rosenbaum among them--deserve some kind of Academy Award.