Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This a Lovely Day?) and on roller skates (Let's Call the Whole Thing Off), and used an entire country club in The Yam number, which for compressed intricacy may have been their most heart- stopping routine. But more than skill and wit informed their partnership. Rogers, as Critic Arlene Croce said, offered Astaire a "genial resistance," bringing out "toughness" and "masculine gallantry" and, one must add, his narrative skill. Their best pas de deux tell full romantic tales: challenge, hesitation, soaring consummation, wistful afterglow...
...over the past three years because of the weak economy. Black trade unionists claim that the wages of black workers have been cut once their American employers have departed. Many black leaders fear far more serious consequences. Says Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Chief Minister of the KwaZulu homeland and a longtime critic of divestiture: "If the South African economy is destroyed along with apartheid, we will have to build on the quicksands of deepening poverty." For now, though, divestiture does not seem to have had much effect -- positive or negative -- on the national economy. Since buyers of American subsidiaries are producing roughly...
...Bruce Springsteen become America's rockin' role model? Critic Dave Marsh, a member of Springsteen's inner circle, suggests that he was driven to it by two haunting figures, Elvis Presley and Ronald Reagan. One a hero gone wrong, the other an antagonist, both taught the Boss a lesson about the hazards of being isolated and uninformed. After Reagan was elected, the Boss traded romantic fantasy for a gritty populism and gave birth to Born in the U.S.A., his heavyweight album about everything from Viet Nam to dying hometowns. In this overlong account, Marsh purveys no dressing-room scandal -- apparently...
...ground in Pakistan, where agents of KHAD, Afghanistan's secret service, frequently stage terror bombings. Last week three time bombs ripped through a Peshawar railway station. In addition, the deal has run into opposition from Senator John Glenn of Ohio, a Democrat who is an outspoken critic of Pakistan's nuclear program. Later this month Glenn plans to propose an end to all U.S. military aid until Islamabad demonstrates that it has ceased production of weapons-grade uranium...
...serious weaknesses (its national political coverage is abysmally shallow, for example), its strengths include a scrappy metropolitan staff, lively cultural reporting, and a generous amount of foreign news for a publication its size. "The paper you see now is not the paper we saw five years ago," says Press Critic Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution...