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Every time I begin to feel a bit guilty about my part in the Woodward hype machine ( Newsweek almost always excerpts his books, often on the cover) I reflect on my paltry powers to find out what happened at an unimportant Oval Office meeting, much less a solarium seance.
The story is viewed as a paltry excuse for Vidal to lash out yet again at American imperialism (set in 1939, it is the tale of a 13-year-old prep-schooler in the Smithsonian after-hours, when the exhibits come to life).
And that's paltry besides the WP 's 4,000-word front-page effort on the same subject, to which the paper saw fit to assign 14 staffers.
We're told of Estella's inner struggle--of the tug of war between the punishing cock-tease that her aunt has engineered her to be and her inherent decency--but the conflict isn't palpable in Paltrow's paltry performance.
None of the movie's distinguished crime honchos--William Devane, James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson--can understand why he's risking his and others' lives in pursuit of such a paltry sum.