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Critics applaud the selection of the absurdist Italian playwright, even while calling him the "most obscure Nobel winner" in years (David Streitfeld, the Washington Post ). Fo's work, especially Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970), is celebrated for combining trenchant left-wing satire with slapstick humor "reminiscent of vintage Marx Brothers" (Rick Lyman, the New York Times ). Conservative critics echo the Vatican, which condemned the choice of the anti-clericalist and ex-Communist as an act that "has surpassed all imagination."
Critics find the film's conceit--"that joblessness is a humiliation well beyond nakedness"--to be "witty" and "trenchant" (the New York Times ' Maslin).
It includes a trenchant "for want of a nail" tale explaining how an early Dick Gephardt-Newt Gingrich agreement to keep the Starr Report under wraps broke down.
an outrageous mixture of brilliant technique, puerile philosophizing, trenchant satire and sensory overload."
This is not, admittedly, a very trenchant or interesting observation.