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These sites were filled with stinging indictments of the government and the mainstream media as well as gleeful cheers for the Web.
I put new Blossoms in the Glass--And throw the old--away--I push a petal from my GownThat anchored there--I weighThe time 'twill be till six o'clockI have so much to do--And yet--Existence--some way back--Stopped--struck--my ticking--through--We cannot put Ourself awayAs a completed ManOr Woman--When the Errand's doneWe came to Flesh--upon--There may be--Miles on Miles of Nought--Of Action--sicker far--To simulate--is stinging work--To cover what we areFrom Science--and from Surgery--Too Telescopic EyesTo beat on us unshaded--For their--sake--not for Ours--'Twould start them--We--could tremble--But since we got a Bomb--And held it in our Bosom--Nay--Hold it--it is calm--
Defenders call it a "largely episodic collection of great moments that aren't all causally linked in that comforting way we're used to" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). Tom Wolfe, who attacked the book in the literary magazine Biblio on the basis of its title--without having read a word of the manuscript--draws a stinging retort from Kirn in the latest issue of Tin House , in which he writes a lovely parody of a negative review for his own book: "I consider it my duty as the author of this offensive work, to carry even further Wolfe's condemnation in hopes of neutralizing, from the start, a potentially harmful literary contagion."
Lieberman repeats his desire for a "stinging censure" so often that I am beginning to think he likes whips.
The WP describes a "stinging" 40-page report, submitted to Congress by a independent panel appointed by the Defense Department, that criticizes the government for over-optimism about its ability to develop interceptors, or "kill vehicles," that would destroy incoming ballistic missiles by colliding with them at supersonic speed.
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