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Like his previous columns, "Tax the Knickers Off Your Grandchildren," by Steven E. Landsburg, took a simplistic mathematical model with little connection to reality, extended it to absurd lengths, and stated that the conclusions are the only reasonable social policy.
On the positive side, "Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with a breathtaking confidence and beauty" (Elizabeth Gleick, Time ). More often, though, critics call the book "didactic and highly simplistic" (Kakutani, the New York Times ). Judith Shulevitz finds a flaw at the center of Faludi's thesis: She "assumes something that's no longer true: that America is in the throes of downsizing and loss"; and her focus on the marginalized and downsized distorts her view: "she should have said she was talking about class; she claimed to be talking about gender" (the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to listen to an interview with Faludi.)
But the rest of the film pales in comparison: It's "fairly standard middle-of-the-road fare, simplistic, conventional, and, when the camera is not focused on Washington, lacking in things to hold our attention" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). On balance, the film works: It may be "as blatantly manipulative as a pep rally," but "Mr.
As far as grammar is concerned, the simplistic syntax and the exceptional preponderance of nouns and verbs (with an accompanying heavy reliance on conversion) are obvious and enduring.
The NYT runs an op-ed by writer Janna Malamud Smith that states "If we're going to make simplistic rules about truth-telling, mine would start here: Ms.
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