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You e-mail your tale of woe--inferior products, ignorant customer service--to shoppingavenger@slate.com, and the Shopping Avenger will use his reporting skills, which have been described by some as "almost supernatural in scope" (and have been described by others as "adequate" and "sort of pathetic") to extract on your behalf grudging apologies from faceless bureaucrats at Fortune 500 companies.
Working on it until six days before his death, the sculptor chiselled a pathetic Mary struggling to hold up the dead Jesus, a strange throwback to medieval sculpture for his last tussle with recalcitrant stone.
The fantasy comes within an inch of seeming pathetic, but Beatty (who co-wrote the script with Jeremy Pikser) is savvy enough to give Bulworth a coked-up campaign manager (the brilliant Oliver Platt) whose jittery attempts at black slang throw the senator's more soulful conversion into relief.
"You're as pretty as my wife" was his pathetic, yet successful, approach with Suzen Johnson, the former flight attendant with whom the Globe taped him having sex.
Photo so pathetic it almost made us laugh: The Globe 's shot of convenience store employee Mesfin Gebreegziabher holding items similar to the ones Kennedy purchased on his way to the airport the night he died: a bottle of Evian water, a banana, and a package of Duracell batteries.