His boldness forced Republicans to weigh the tempting possibility of forgoing an all-out fight in favor of someone as unsensational as Livingston _ an 11-term, 55-year-old traditionalist who quietly cuts legislative deals as if politics were carpentry, not the thrust-and-chop martial arts that Gingrich often seemed to prefer.
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Among modern reviews, Allrovi gave the film three stars out of five, feeling that first two stories did not work as well as the second two as well as saying that it was Borowczyk's move from " art house material and toward softcore; as such, the material displays its director's characteristic intelligence but lapses into exploitation a little too often . " In an overview of Borowczyk's work in the film magazine Senses of Cinema, " Immoral Tales " is referred to as his weakest amongst his first five feature films and that " an unsensational approach to the material and detached gaze of the camera make it closer to a surrealist text than a pornographic movie ."
