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Hoffman uses nudity for laughs, to the point where Theseus' hunting party stumbles on the lovers in their birthday suits--a discovery that would surely result in their arrest on the spot instead of the genial interrogation provided by Shakespeare.
In a lengthy cover piece in the New York Times Magazine , James Bennet assesses the Reform Party as it stumbles toward the 2000 election.
And when it stumbles onto a good subject for a series, like Ken Burns' history of baseball, it turns the show into a seminar on racism and labor relations, not the hit-and-run and the spitball.
In fact, criminal tax prosecutions are decreasing . Most of the IRS's stumbles are caused by outdated computers, not rogue agents.
They are not terribly well delivered by the candidate, who stumbles more in one speech than Bill Clinton does in a year's worth of them.