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Some praise the show for its self-parodic dialogue and realistic characters who are "as annoying and self-absorbed--as people of your own acquaintance" (Barbara Phillips, the Wall Street Journal ). Others say they have no interest in watching "spineless, whiny, indecisive nitwits" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ).
(The audience is left to guess if Rocky is spineless or if he's just trying to convince all the kids who worship him that crime doesn't pay.)
Kaschgaria was removed by Poljakov from Artemisia s.l . on the basis of stellate corolla hairs, and was considered more closely related to Seriphidium than Artemisia s.s ., even though it is disciform rather than discoid [ 2 ] . Kaschgaria possesses spineless pollen [ 2 37 ] . Therefore, placement of Kaschgaria and Elachanthemum outside of the Artemisia -group is intriguing because if these placements remain robust, wind-pollination may have arisen more than once in the tribe, or insect-pollination may be secondarily derived within Subtribe Artemisiinae in the radiate genera (clade 3 of Fig.
This was a craven, spineless response.
Both genera are discoid with corymbose capitula, but whether either genus possesses spineless pollen (a synapomorphy for the Artemisia -group) or is wind-pollinated has not yet been determined [ 2 37 ] . Kaschgaria, a genus of two species from China and central Asia, is also placed outside of the Artemisia -group, but clearly within Subtribe Artemisiinae (94% probability) in the ITS phylogeny.
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