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The surfeit of mildly interesting plots surrounding each duo results in a film that is "the cinematic answer to one of those parties where you pig out on canapés" (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ). The highlight of the film: a wonderful performance by Angelina Jolie (Jon Voight's daughter) as a tough club kid who falls in love with a blue-haired Ryan Phillippe.
from generation to generation" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). A few, like Pearl K. Bell in the Wall Street Journal , find "a surfeit of sweetly obedient docility" in the novel and say parts are "perilously at the edge of sentimentality."
He also has wonderful breath, but not from a surfeit of mints or mouthwash."
Another Y2K growth area unmentioned by the Times : a surfeit of near-identical stories featuring an increasingly familiar cast of programmers, pundits, and predictions.
Mutations found in at least two nuclear genes also correlate with Leigh syndrome: one for a subunit of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex and one for surfeit locus protein 1 (SURF-1), which is involved in the assembly of cytochrome c oxidase.
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