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And despite Krugman's argument, it would matter to me if I knew that the shirt I just purchased was produced by laborers who were beaten and tortured in order to increase their productivity.
It "plays like a dead battery disguised as an objet d'art " (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). They are especially irked by the movie's artsy pretensions (Pip is turned into a tortured painter) and earnestness (its un-Dickensian fulminations about undying love), as well as flat performances by Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow.
At the other extreme, Hoffman, as one of the two fat neighbors, is encased in his flab like a tortured prisoner of war.
A WP editorial moans that the "mind-numbing" House speeches "do more to inure the viewer to the president's offensive conduct than all the tortured arguments his various lawyers can muster."
The Los Angeles Times said he had been "tortured with cigarette burns."