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Gomberg advocated the elimination of "excessive or gratuitous or unpunished" violence in movies and television.
The harsh response to Rorty may have something to do with his penchant for gratuitous, con-baiting asides, such as the one in which he absurdly states that "we caused the death of a million Vietnamese out of sheer macho arrogance."
I cannot recall a more gratuitous grouse than Sarah Kerr's questioning, in an otherwise estimable piece, of the "reader-friendliness" of the Library of America's Gertrude Stein volumes ("What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate").
Critics dump on the gratuitous violence--especially a rape and murder scene involving a naked woman staked to the ground--in this thriller starring John Travolta, James Woods, and Madeleine Stowe.
The piece is full of chilling anecdotes about Serbs' "gratuitous sadism" and indifference to Kosovar suffering.