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...worth seeing, if you’re enough of a devoted Steve Martin fan to wish to partake of his fantasy of producing “high art” (underscored by the moody lighting), but frankly, not worth the ten dollars. There are much cheaper ways to feel bilious...

Author: By Alexandra M. Fallows, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shopgirl | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

...dismayed by TIME'S decision to legitimize Coulter and the venom she spews by stating that "she helps set the nation's tone." Without fail, she lowers the level of discourse on whatever issue she targets for her latest bilious tirade against liberalism and Democrats. If Coulter's screeching caricature of political commentary is setting the tone, the nation is the worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 16, 2005 | 5/8/2005 | See Source »

...critical reception of Diary to that of Sideways and you come closer to understanding the cultural biases that influence critical opinion. A number of movie reviewers have suggested that Sideways proved so resonant with their peers because its protagonist resembles, in vocation and disposition, the professional critic: discerning and bilious in equal measure. Diary contains no such analogs, and much of its criticism is detached and dismissive in tone...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mad 'Diary' Fans Denounce Critics | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...troop strength in Iraq at its current level for very long. Second, we don't have the money to fund any of Bush's domestic plans--certainly not the privatization of Social Security, which has an up-front cost of $1 trillion. Third, Democrats are furious at the bilious tone of the Bush campaign and in no mood to cooperate on anything. The hyperpartisanship will continue to be fed by an increasingly divided and overheated media. Finally, Bush is sitting on a volcano in his own party. The vaunted discipline of the Republicans allowed only a few premonitory rumblings during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2004 Election: The Uniter vs. the Divider | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

...reading the minds of Parker and Stone. But having mocked the President in the live-action family sitcom That's My Bush!, they seem now to be sharing his vision. The jokes about a paramilitary force that destroys countries it wants to save are a lot less bilious than the ones aimed at the lefty actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: When Puppets Get Political | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

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