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I particularly liked the way he worked the book through the pessimist/optimist grinder.
Preoccupation with the scandal led a harried and nervous president to send his deputies into a sausage grinder, say Gloria Borger ( Face the Nation ) and Fred Barnes ( McLaughlin Group ). A reluctance to appear in public forums for fear of drawing Lewinsky questions compromises Clinton as commander in chief, says Gigot on Fox News Sunday --Clinton "can't compartmentalize these things the way he wants to."
(Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Complaints: 1) The violence is over the top: "Watching it is like riding a roller coaster through a meat grinder."
There's also a scene in which an alien gets slowly sucked out of a hole into space, a process that makes a meat grinder look merciful.