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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."
Gripes: 1) Friedman's belief in global economics and American-style capitalism's ability to solve the world's ills reads more like cheerleading than analysis: "[O]nly a New York Times foreign affairs columnist could write a book so relentlessly upbeat about the USA's prospects in an ever more tightly integrated world without being accused of unsophisticated boosterism" (David J. Lynch, USA Today ). 2) Some of his theories have already been disproved: His "Golden Arches" theory of international relations held that no two countries that both had a McDonald's have ever gone to war.
The main gripes: The list rates living filmmakers (Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese) above great dead ones (no Preston Sturges or Buster Keaton).
The contrast is strong enough to sustain the allusion to Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn (bypassing Steinbeck, of course) when Quinn speaks of the narrative trampling over the now familiar gripes of Roth.
A Democratic staffer gripes, "There is not a single member of the House who objects to the funding to fight child porn, but Republicans constructed the vote in such a way that a vote against the bill can be framed as a vote to say Democrats favor pornography.
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