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The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.
Rather than equalize opportunity, the SAT turns the uppermost percentile into a privileged class and perpetuates the educational disadvantage of other test-takers.
When Johnson turns to the 19 th century, he continues to reward us with lively prose and well-crafted sketches of people--mostly presidents and big business leaders such as the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and the banker J. Pierpont Morgan (this is decidedly a top-down history, in which the poor, labor union leaders, and minority groups receive far less attention than in most scholarly histories these days).
The Orwellians, it turns out, were too modest.
Second, it turns out that while the 11/12 national edition of the NYT didn't report the Pakistani shootings and the first part of the metropolitan press run didn't either, the story did make it into the latter half of the metro edition.