The new templates of the genre are Patrick Marber's wildly acclaimed " Closer, " a brutal look at an internecine romantic quadrangle ( headed for Broadway next year ), and Mark Ravenhill's notorious " Shopping and . . . " ( seen in New York last season ), works in which carnal knowledge, explicitly documented, is unsatisfying and unenlightening.
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At this level of generality, the debate proved unenlightening and essentially circular; no matter how high the Democrats set the rhetorical bar _ " The great weight of the historical and scholarly evidence leads to the conclusion that in order to have committed an impeachable offense the president must have acted to subvert our system of government, " as Charles Ruff, the White House counsel, put it _ the Republicans responded that the president's behavior met the test.
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Magazine stated, " the caricatures are so crude and the revelations so unenlightening of the human condition, that the satire is about as socially incisive as a Police Academy entry . " Vincent Canby in " The New York Times " denounced " Brian De Palma's gross, unfunny movie adaptation . " Owen Gleiberman of " Entertainment Weekly " called it, " one of the most indecently bad movies of the year . " Rita Kempley said in " The Washington Post ", " the director has become one with the buffoons Wolfe scored in his bestseller.
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The bad news is that the book leaves out much that it ought to include and includes some that it ought to leave out . " As an example of what he felt should have been included, Cooper notes " In spite of the book s strength in depicting Wilson s family life, it is also oddly unsatisfactory about one of its most important figures : his father . " As another example, Cooper states that " Equally glaring is the lack of attention to Wilson s thought . " Cooper questions Berg's inclusion of the memories of Wilson wife by saying " Kristie Miller s excellent biography of Wilson s two wives could have raised red flags about Edith s memory . " Cooper not only disputes Berg's framing of Wilson's racism but also his religious perspective, calling into question the use of Bible quotations at the beginning of each chapter : " Other reviewers have found this practice tiresome; I found it unenlightening and strange . " Cooper ends by saying " To sum up, this biography has much to recommend it, especially the pleasure it affords in reading it.
