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It is a seer's eye moving lordly through the bar,over all of us its rapture cool, so otherworldly,who here can deny that hidden craving is abroad,and that the cure lies in the body spread before usthat the eye alone is shrewd enough to read.
Such occasional overreaching aside, Applebome's is a shrewd, fair, and entertaining guide to the region.
Witness the number of big names turning in shrewd, non-hammy, anti-Robin Williams performances in animated films; witness Bruce Willis reviving his career by ceasing to be Bruce Willis; witness the reigning stardom of Gwyneth Paltrow, who is not the Audrey Hepburn supernova she's cracked up to be, but, to her credit, a chameleon character actress who happens to lovely.
But psychoanalysis--and Lacan was particularly shrewd about this--has always been essentially a critique of straightforwardly casual accounts of how people become who they are.
Many pundits, fancying themselves shrewd, suggest that McCain's true reason for skipping Iowa is that he has "taken a position on ethanol subsidies that's unpalatable to voters in Iowa."