Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intellectual ability, some other personality trait changed as well? "Everything comes at a price," argues UCLA neurobiologist Alcino Silva. "Very often when there's a genetic change where we improve something, something else gets hit by it, so it's never a clean thing." The alarmists, like longtime biotech critic Jeremy Rifkin, go further. "How do you know you're not going to create a mental monster?" he asks. "We may be on the road to programming our own extinction...
...taboo he shattered was exposing the secret, closeted discourse among black Americans about their own," says cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson. "Rock signifies an unwillingness among the younger black generation to abide by the dirty-laundry theory. That theory suggests you don't say anything self-critical or negative about black people where white people can hear it. But the hip-hop generation believes in making money off the publication of private pain and agony...
...chapel wall is part of his forthcoming book, A Place Called Waco. Others argue that the tear gas, at the very least, set the stage for an inadvertent inferno--a claim long since dismissed as bad science by an independent investigation. Meanwhile, Michael McNulty, a dogged FBI critic whose Waco documentary was nominated for an Oscar in 1998, has teamed up with Frederic Whitehurst, an FBI whistle blower, and is reportedly working on a second film, Waco: A New Revelation. It purportedly includes footage of an FBI helicopter opening fire on the Davidians on April 19. The FBI has always...
...Wring me out!" cried one normally stone-faced critic at the Cannes Film Festival after seeing this vivacious screwball melodrama, which won Almodovar the Best Director prize. Hot tears are an apt response: the two most innocent characters die; the others grieve and carry on womanfully. At the center of the film is Manuela (Cecilia Roth, in a heroically clenched performance), who goes to Barcelona looking for her ex-husband and ends up mothering half a dozen lost souls. She is Mother Courage, Mother Teresa and your mom on her very best day. But All About My Mother also gives...
...really afraid after watching the movie The Blair Witch Project--afraid to trust a movie critic's rating again. This movie deserves a -3 1/2 stars for its predictable plot, endless photographic jarring and idiotic f______ dialogue. If this is a 3 1/2-star movie, boo, hiss--and help! JUDY COLTON Lititz...