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Santoro's high-tech odyssey and the movie's themes don't intersect as they did in Blow Out (1981), and the climax doesn't unify the movie's visuals--the way the angled escalators in the shootout of Carlito's Way (1993) were like a grand, trigonometric punch line.
La Stampa , in a front-page comment, called it "a punch in the stomach," comparing it to other sadly unforgettable photos such as those of the dead Che Guevara, the napalm-burnt little girl during the Vietnam War, and the despairing Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro as a prisoner of the Red Brigades.
Martin earned himself a place in every macroeconomics textbook by quipping that the Fed's mission is "to take away the punch bowl just when the party gets going."
The series was erotic in a way only prim English humor can be: The Old Boy Steed was capable of throwing a punch and bonking someone with his bowler, but he left the karate kicking to his liberated, leather-suited distaff associate.
Some wonder if this is a result of having a living subject--"Kaplan doesn't push, doesn't ask discomfiting questions" (Richard Dyer, the Boston Globe )--and note that Vidal "seems to have been able to exert his considerable charm, guile, and authority over his biographer" (Martin Rubin, the Washington Times ). Several also mention that Kaplan has been beaten to the punch by Vidal himself, who released his own memoir, Palimpsest , just three years ago.