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...book comes at a time when Republicans are making a fetish of balanced budgets, tilting at the last remnants of the New Deal and threatening to pass laws that limit the ability of ordinary citizens to sue companies for negligence. The End of Reform is a reminder that there was a time when popular reform was not about protecting corporations from consumers but shielding consumers from corporations...
What begins looking like one more film fetishizing violence ends with a palpable, some will say trite, proclamation of self-importance. It is the realization that there is nothing Western culture can do to save the Maori from decadence and decay that they could not do better themselves. By first flinging bits of raw, unfiltered indictments of urban life at its audience, "Warriors" depresses the spirit in order to redeem it with a glimmer of hope in the end. While violence serves a dual purpose, to caress the fetish as well as to sicken the heart, it is the latter...
There is nothing in this movie to enjoy, least of all its art. And yet, like Beth, its defiant spirit and hope are enough to bring it prosperity. Hope here means hoping this actually intends its documentary brotherhood and only accidentally exploits a fetish for violence on and off the screen...
Senior captain Pepper Brill's defense was calm and rock-solid at the back. The offense looked past its usual fetish for scoring from the set-piece to pick up two pretty goals in the flow of play...
...distressed wife, deLima's Clelia is a hilarious mix of misguided energy. When their domestic squabbles erupt, Clelia satisfies her frustration with a fetish for breaking plates wrapped in napkins...