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It's "a sort of Stephen King novel for highbrows" (David Gates, the New York Times Book Review ) that combines "existential bleakness" (David Ulin, Newsday ) and "breezy silliness" (Bill Kent, the Washington Post Book World ). The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani dissents, calling Already Dead "simultaneously pretentious, sentimental, bubble-headed and gratuitously violent."
--Prudie, gratuitously
The most gratuitously anti-Sid coverage was the front-page sneer from John M. Broder in the New York Times .
Los Angeles Times TV critic Harold Rosenberg scored her "gratuitously coarse language and one-liners, and cheap political jokes."
The Reagan administration was, I think, gratuitously punitive toward some of the poorest and most desperate welfare recipients and put much too much of the burden of its supposed deficit reduction on the backs of those least able to afford it (and on programs so meagerly funded that their contribution to deficit reduction was meaningless in any case).