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For much of the piece Maslin seemed to criticize the way films like A Handful of Dust distorted the novels they set out to adapt, the way they reeked of snobbery and voyeurism, the way they substituted rarified Ralph Lauren décors for content.
It might be argued that Wolfe's portrait of the middle's muddle will be shocking only to a rarified and dogmatic crew of ideologues.