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These little films, supervised by Park and directed by Loyd Price and Chris Sadler, have a lovingly handmade look to them. They might be Wallace's crackpot creations, except that here everything works beautifully. The only explosions are of the viewer's laughter. --By Richard Corliss
...snacking lunatics. Frankly, a man (or an overgrown adolescent) who can’t win over his mother’s love definitely doesn’t deserve my support. This guy needs a bit of Ritalin and a whole bunch of Prozac, not another glowing review from some crackpot critic who can’t tell the difference between art and tasteless garbage, who’d tell you the Mona Lisa would be greatly improved if she were covered in horseshit. Eminem represents corrupt and demented form of “art.” His success...
Citing Reid's expensive travels and his possession of PETN and TAPT, relatively sophisticated high explosives often used by terrorists, investigators don't rule out a conspiracy. But the current favored theory is that Reid is a lone crackpot--a view that appears to have contributed to a key venue decision. Unless new evidence develops, Reid will be indicted in Boston, where he was arrested after his American Airlines flight made an emergency landing. If Justice Department officials felt he was part of a larger conspiracy, presumably his case would be transferred to the terrorism task force in northern Virginia...
...subject as a mother who has delivered after a fourteen-month pregnancy. For another, the argument always ruins the evening. This election has fermented into a sort of darkening inebriant that makes people ugly. I find myself going on a toxic tear and firing off lines of crackpot dudgeon - pure postelectoral rant...
Deciding who is a viable presidential candidate, and therefore who should be able to participate in a nationally televised debate, is not an easy choice. No one wants a crackpot candidate who has no chance of winning the general election to detract from the debate and waste the public's time. However, by the same token, any candidate who does not have the opportunity to participate in the debates has virtually no chance to win an upset victory in the election...