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No, what struck Jacob as oppressively squalid was the subject matter he was forced to contemplate week after week: fleeting, age-inappropriate sexual liaisons in the Oval Office; the seep of money into every cranny of the political system; Trent Lott; Newt Gingrich.
I found it so oppressively smug that I had to get up and pace the aisles three or four times, and I'd have bolted if I hadn't been duty bound to stick it out.
) More important, it has the Farrellys' characteristic mix of misery and brightness: Whenever the view of the working poor threatens to become oppressively self-pitying, the filmmakers pull something nutty out of their hat--a scam, a bit of stoner dialogue, a jolt of rock 'n' roll--to prove that this particular end only looks dead.
Not all will be as eager to spend days at the ruins and it can be oppressively hot during the summer months.