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...idiosyncratic, in fact, that much of the time you'll read one of the 1,000 brief essays, look up, shake your head, and think "What the hell is this guy talking about?" For that, you should be grateful. All too many books about film regurgitate the same old pablum about the same old movies over and over again. Thomson, however, isn't afraid to tear down critical darlings (he hates Stanley Kubrick), isn't afraid of spoilers (there's a strong argument to be made for film criticism that can only be read after having seen the movie...
...Molly wrote for the Dallas Times Herald, until it was swallowed up by the Dallas Morning News in 1992. Oh, I envied her, and I am sure that I was not alone - to be a political columnist in that decade before so much of politics turned to spin and pablum...
...name recognition and credibility with conservatives would still have time to catch up. Rushing into the race merely plays into the hands of the professional political class, Gingrich says. "It would be nice to spend a year developing genuine solutions that work for the American people rather than whatever pablum the political consultants come up with...
...embraces this concept, it could one day become Japan's ruling party and finally demonstrate how a genuine bipartite political system can work in Japan. In his acceptance speech, Ozawa said: "I will reform myself as well as the party." Although Japanese voters have heard this type of pablum from politicians countless times in the past, it is vitally important for Ozawa to keep his word. For without the DPJ to keep the LDP on its toes, Japan suffers...
...news media have become addicted to the supply of news from Washington. It's a reliable and steady flow of material. That's nothing to be sneered at. The general alternative is even worse: the mindless pablum of celebrity journalism, the endless stories about self-promoting actors and movie stars who pretend they dislike the press...