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Companies averse to firing employees are, in a sluggish economy, reluctant to hire too.
The Chicago Sun-Times ' Roger Ebert dissents, suggesting critics are swooning over this pretentious, sluggish "lifeless drone" for political reasons.
Contrary to a recent New York Times Magazine story, the independent counsel is not to blame for the sluggish pace of the Whitewater investigation: Stonewalling by Clinton and his allies have impeded the probe.
Individual performances are said to be inspired; the card hall settings are said to be gritty; the dialogue is said to be pleasingly peppered with poker jargon--but the film is deemed "unable to do justice to its potential" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Objections: a sluggish plot and a predictable setup.
Now, the white lines' dot and dash makes my hand less steady on the wheel, the stoplight glimmers a shade too red-- the faith I've never felt in the day to day haunts me like some imp-winged demon in a Bosch painting, its infantile, red-bawling face staring accusingly into my eyes as if it dared to fly beyond the gilt frame, hectoring, hovering, sluggish wings buzzing like the winter-hatched fly stumbling spastic against the dashboard dials, its frail internal compass somehow gone haywire overridden by spurts and shocks.