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Most celebrated is the tortured Laocoön group (from Rhodes, first century b.c. –first century a.d. ), only recently returned more closely to its pristine state by the removal of one statue’s outstretched arm added by over-zealous 16th-century “restorers”).
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.
Rockefeller's harsh Baptist upbringing made him the perfect instrument of the marketplace, but it also set up a tortured cycle inside him.
Trying to deny Lou Reed any meaningful role in the Velvets, as Miller does, is a little tortured.
The LAT and WP give the most space to Ruff's tortured attempts to show that Clinton's sworn denials of sexual relations with Lewinsky were not perjury.