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"The Boogie Nights of the fake-boob industry" (Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the show's witty satire of sleazy doctors, as well as the performances by David Schwimmer ( Friends ) and Chris Cooper ( Lone Star ). New York 's John Leonard gripes that Breast Men simply exploits cable TV's independence to show gratuitous flesh: "In an exuberance meant to be Rabelaisian, it crosses the line from peep show into pornography."
The anachronistic colloquial expressions ("bedding down," "a little snow," "shit, man"), the insertion of gratuitous detail ("his TR-6 convertible sports car," "one point four-five million dollars"), and the utterly non-conversational tone ("raised almost a staggering sixty million dollars") all make me suspicious.
Call it gratuitous meritocracy.
When uttered in circumstances where taboo language would seem either gratuitous or otherwise inappropriate, rude words are not only equally out of place in the world of make-believe as in the real world but, worse, they interfere (in both) with the message.
Thanks to Michael Kinsley for buying into our list at the beginning of his recent "." But his later point about "gratuitous meritocracy" did not seem up to his usual level of argument.