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Roger Ebert (the Chicago Sun-Times ) speaks for most critics when he complains that the film "begins well and makes good points, but it flies off the rails in the last 30 minutes.
A Pecksniffian TV evangelist might conceivably-- heaven forbid--revile sin and sinners while wallowing in the conduct that he rails against.
A WSJ front-page feature reports on a virtually unnoticed obstacle to the flourishing of free trade under NAFTA: There aren't enough bridges, rails and docks to handle all the additional movement of goods the treaty sanctions.
In “The Language of the Law” [XVII,1], one phrase ran off the rails:
Even as the Wall Street Journal editorial page rails against the progressive income tax's bite on high-income types, the Journal 's front offers a more grounded look at big earners these days, noting a whiney new development among many professionals with annual incomes of nearly $200,000: envy of those who, thanks to booming job and stock markets, make even more.