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Suddenly forced to keep company with men named Vito and Vinnie, to bury a corpse beside the East River, and to make like a gangster with a voice that's a cross between John Wayne and Tweety Bird, the squeamish Englishman winces, bites his lip, bats his eyelashes, shrugs sheepishly, and looks--yes--adorably abashed.
The heroes of Real Life (1979), Modern Romance (1981), and Lost in America (1985) have their jerky sides (emotionally squeamish viewers tend to find them repellent), but they also have compensatory gifts--chiefly Brooks' urgent babble, in which pleas are made and then restated and then turned inside out in a way that brilliantly (and hilariously) distills neurotic thought processes.
It's too bad he's squeamish.
However, when a woman goes "National Geographic" and everything is out in the open, I feel a bit squeamish.
Hawks deride Clinton for having let squeamish NATO partners such as Italy and Germany curtail the early stages of the war.
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