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The comedy Outside Providence treats those dark years after Nixon got flushed away with just the right amount of gleeful nostalgia and horrified incredulity.
A few stick up for the embattled author, arguing that though "the ideas expressed aren't complicated," Purdy "grapples with them with a seriousness that puts more seasoned--and ironic--commentators to shame" ( Publishers Weekly ). Walter Kirn, writing in Time , seems a bit gleeful at the fact that "the brainy nature boy has stormed the capital, panicking the languid sophisticates with an unfashionably passionate attack on the dangers of passionlessness," only to later concede that the book is "an arduous read that would test the syntactical skills of a tenured professor."
And the Times also reports that the Democrats are gleeful because they think the ads will create a big backlash against Republicans.
Supporters of Republican presidential candidates are presumably gleeful that this contest is being scored at all and don't much care how big the gap is.
The author concludes, "It is as a rule absurd, and utterly unrealistic, to see ideological motives, let alone ideological malevolence" in action pictures; he is conveniently omitting any reference here to Eastwood's pal John Milius, the gleeful liberal-basher who scripted many of the banner lines in Dirty Harry and Magnum Force (1973).