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This book has the unintended effect of exposing the unappealing side of the school-choice crusade: The ideal parent of these pages does not remind me much of an upstanding, civic-minded citizen--the kind of patriot Bennett presumably admires.
Having already made Harrer's character an unappealing egotist interested only in mountain climbing until the Dalai Lama changed his life, the filmmakers were able to incorporate Stern 's unpleasant revelation into the story line quite easily.
What's ordinarily so unappealing about "fashion" is its combination of snobbery, high cost, and humorlessness.
Those in favor call the film "scorchingly funny" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ) and Stiller's performance "rivetingly caustic" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Those against complain that the film is "a shallow tale told by an idiot" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) and that Stiller's junkie character is too thoroughly unappealing for the audience to ever root for him.
An the other hand, the people of Iceland gave their own island the unappealing name of Iceland in hopes of discouraging immigrants from coming to what is actually a relatively warm and comfortable place to live, since it is heated by geothermal activity.