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2. Their comments also show a willful or inadvertent misunderstanding of my first gripe.
Mirror ). A few gripe that the series is just a formula boys' boarding-school adventure story gussied up with magical trappings (see last week's discussion in Slate 's ), but young readers don't seem to care: According to Bloomsbury, the book's U.K. publisher, Azkaban broke an opening-day sales record--16,853 copies in the first 100 minutes on sale.
* Chatterbox was himself at the time a Wall Street Journal reporter on the tobacco beat, and could gripe about how The Insider didn't even trouble itself to mis pronounce his own name.
The critics gripe a bit but still give a standing ovation to Mike Leigh's ( Secrets and Lies ) new film, about a short span in the lives and work of Gilbert and Sullivan as they compose and stage The Mikado . "Only a lunatic would call Topsy-Turvy , with its lame first hour and host of loose ends, a masterpiece, but by the finale I was ready to have myself committed" (David Edelstein, Slate ). It's "one of those films that create a mix of erudition, pageantry and delectable acting opportunities, much as Shakespeare in Love did last year," and it "vigorously and amusingly explore[s] what it means for an artist to renew his energies by returning to square one" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Several note its slow start and general disorganization: "[I]t teases us with the feeling that Leigh had a basic plan for the picture and never realized it" (Stanley Kauffmann, the New Republic ). (Click to read the rest of Edelstein's review in
Clinton's critics won't be able to gripe that he escaped scot-free: He will be paying the price, quietly, every week.
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