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The press was only grudgingly allowed into its by-invitation-only showings nearly half a century after famous Paris couturiers first began holding sway over the clothing of the world's elegant women.
Today, when commercial considerations put the publisher into the role of the patron--despite the fact that advances are repayable, risks are taken--acknowledgment of an editor's (artistic) contribution may be relegated to the closing lines of the author's foreword, which often grudgingly suggests that the work was produced in spite of rather than because of the person cited.
It has stu-freakin'-pendous special effects, hipster sang-froid out the wazoo and a story line that makes only as much sense as it has to" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). A grudgingly appreciative Janet Maslin says that at its best the movie brings "Hong Kong action style home to audiences in a mainstream American adventure with big prospects as a cult classic and with the future very much in mind" (the New York Times ). Others criticize the convoluted story line and call it strictly genre and strictly for "guys in their teens and 20s, for whom the script's pretentious mumbo-jumbo of undergraduate mythology, religious mysticism and technobabble could even be a plus rather than a dramatic liability" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ). (To see the trailer and some fine Keanu pics, visit this fan site; check out David Edelstein's in Slate .)
Most follow it, but grudgingly.
His stated reasons are that the Serb-dominated Yugoslav government, led by President Slobodan Milosevic, is waging war on the ethnic Albanian population of the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, and that Milosevic refuses to sign a peace plan to which Kosovo's ethnic Albanian rebels have grudgingly agreed.
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