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Most critics like this "surprisingly genial and affecting comedy about the trials and tribulations of teenage rebellion during the Reagan '80s" (Jami Bernard, Daily News ). The title refers to two Salt Lake City punks whose tentative attempts at rebellion are more funny and halfhearted than seriously anarchistic: It's "an absurdist coming-of-age comedy" that's "better defined by its polish than by punk trappings" (Maslin, New York Times ). Some are not impressed with the film's watered down rebellion: "[T]his energetic but poorly structured, rather self-congratulatory look at spike-haired rebelliousness in mid-'80s Utah could strike unbiased viewers as more grating than gratifying," and the film "doesn't quite grasp how its slick, flashy package undermines any actual punk cred" it might have (Dennis Harvey, Variety ). (Brush up on your own punk cred by seeing how many of these bands you know.)
The real problem with the Victims' Rights Amendment is that it undermines the moral authority of justice.
Pundits' spin: This undermines Kenneth Starr's theory that Lewinsky sought Clinton's help in exchange for lying to protect him in the Jones case.
But this undermines his entire case about Stalin's unique responsibility.
Newspapers said the new research: 1) "showed that scientists were narrowing in on chemical exposure --from pesticides … nerve gas, or an experimental drug given to troops--as the cause of the illness"; 2) undermines a Clinton administration report suggesting the complaints resulted from battlefield stress; and 3) could guarantee these veterans better coverage for treatment.
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