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One Congress member is quoted as seeing in the Fed's Long-Term machinations an example of one set of rules for welfare mothers, another for rich people in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The second of two installments in the presidential scholar's biography of the 36 th president is deemed "sound and judicious," and a corrective to Robert Caro's polemical anti-Johnson tomes (Sean Wilentz, the New York Times Book Review ). Critics seize on the lurid details, from LBJ's exposing himself to reporters to his behind-the-scenes machinations during the 1968 presidential campaign.
(The last film for which I have unqualified admiration is Robert Duvall's The Apostle .) I was enraged by the killing of the Iraqi mother in Three Kings and resented some of the jokiness and formula machinations that followed in its wake.
Some will complain that McAllister's slapstick-tragic lust for Linda shifts the focus too much from the campaign to the bedroom, but the movie means to be more than a study of electoral machinations.
The Italian press was more interested in the political machinations that led to the cancellation of a planned referendum on electoral reform.