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Main gripes: an implausible and uninspired premise--the FBI recruits an Irish Republican Army terrorist to hunt down an elusive professional assassin--and an excess of gratuitous explosions.
3.21-2), where the reader may infer that the mail service was just as deficient then as it is today, when Belarius gripes to his sons, Guiderius and Arvigarus,
"Fifty-two to 35 looks a lot better for Bradley than 52 to 13 to 12 to 10," gripes a Gore staffer.
Perennial gripes about the annual glitz-fest: It showcases mediocrity.
Critics scoff at two new late-night talk shows, hosted by black stand-up comics, as poor replicas of the early '90s hit The Arsenio Hall Show . Vibe , produced by Quincy Jones, and Keenen , made by the creator of the comedy series In Living Color , are pronounced "indistinguishable" (James Collins, Time ) and "hard to stay awake through" (Howard Rosenberg, the Los Angles Times ). The main gripes are that the programs stick to a "banal" (Caryn James, the New York Times ) talk show formula and have even less bite than David Letterman's or Jay Leno's network show.