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Just published and already a best seller, The Perfect Storm is said to be "thrilling--a boat ride into and (for us) out of a watery hell" (Anthony Bailey, the New York Times Book Review ). Reviews cite the book's eclecticism: It combines a lucid explanation of the storm's complex meteorology, gritty descriptions of sailor bars and, most compellingly, a reconstruction of the ship's final minutes.
In the absence of the nitty gritty, however, I will take a flier and say that the administration did this for political gain-i.e., to help Ms. Clinton in New York, home of a great many Latino voters.
It has a gritty feel and a tight, methodical, one-thing-after-another tempo.
' " (Chris Kaltenbach, the Baltimore Sun ). Says Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times : "It's a gritty story made in the director's more elegiacal mode, a confusion of style and content that is not in the film's best interests."
The FALN stories are not well reported and have not yet given us the nitty gritty.