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Perhaps you’ve read Pete Wells’s New York Times restaurant review of Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar, the gargantuan new Times Square food circus presented by noted celebrity chef Guy Fieri? Isn’t it neat how the entire review was written in a series of direct and rhetorical questions? Can you believe that those questions were all virulent takedowns of the restaurant? Did anyone anticipate it would generate responses from so many people, both positive and negative? Who would have thought that even Guy Fieri would respond on national television? What about you? Do you think the review is ground zero for a discussion about the value and purpose of criticism? Do you think it says something about class and taste? And don’t you think these sentences phrased as questions get kind of annoying after a while?
