71.   The whole thing was a Commie frame-up.

72.   The whole thing was a disaster from beginning to end.

73.   The whole thing was a ghastly mistake.

74.   The whole thing was a set up to get Burley to confess.

75.   The whole thing was so depressing - it made me want to give up and go home.

76.   The whole thing was so oblique, so fiendish in its circumlocutions, that he did not want to accept it.

77.   The whole thing was, he had to admit, in very dubious taste.

78.   The whole thing went pear-shaped.

79.   The whole thing, needless to say, is demoralizing.

80.   The whole thing, of course, is being blown up out of all proportion by the Western media.