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The benefits that come with the new position (free beer, cheerleaders slathered in whipped cream) get lots of screen-time, and at points the film is almost "a poor man's Porky's " (Andy Seiler, USA Today ). John Anderson pans it in the Los Angeles Times ("a trashy little movie about drinking, football and drinking"), saying it "pretends to moralize about the very behavior it milks for every giggle it can get."
As soon as Hal ascends to the throne, however, he pretends not to know his old and embarrassing mentor:
‘Of course, there are developmental differences between people and fish, and no one pretends that we can answer every question about human development in zebrafish’.
In fact, anyone who pretends to have an interest in language and who has a library of worthwhile works on the subject must have all of Safire's language books in his library.
"Today we saw what 'compassionate conservativism' pretends to be," harrumphed Sen.