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The cover essay lambastes the talk show Politically Incorrect for its inane discourse: "The pace is plodding, as host and guests struggle to figure out what it is they're talking about."
It is hard to counter a proverb: they have all the plodding force of a mule-driving peasant, earthy and inevitable.
Not even a cover rave in Time for Eyes Wide Shut --a Warner Bros. release--could turn that plodding movie into a hit.
If my book-loving peers would rather spend their beach reading on plodding thrillers than on the heart-stopping adventure stories of Philip Pullman (author of the "Dark Materials" trilogy), say, or the scintillating allegory of Norton Juster ( The Phantom Tollbooth ), then nothing could be done about it, short of reading aloud to them when they were laid up with the flu (which does work, but you lose your voice).
But just when you start to get impatient with the plodding, one-thing-after-another style of narration, there's a shocker that blows you into the movie's last act, and then a scene in which a couple of former antagonists figure out what stinks and join forces in an abandoned motel to stave off an army of bad guys.