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Since film studies became an official concentration, and former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell taught a popular film analysis course last spring, VES has garnered the interest of many undergraduates...
Patience is the mantra among many WUSA boosters. "One thing I've noticed about women's sports is that the tolerance level changes," says Foudy. "If results aren't delivered right now, people are quicker to call it a failure." But at least one critic argues that the WUSA hasn't acted fast enough. Lisa Delpy Neirotti, a sports-management professor at George Washington University, says that even if the WUSA is seeking a soft relaunch next spring, it should have lined up sponsors before companies set fiscal-year ad budgets over the summer, giving the league a more solid...
...aspiring critic of art and architecture, I sometimes get nostalgic for the early 19th century. It seems like my job would have been easier then. I can picture myself strolling through the galleries looking at pictures of voluptuous naked ladies and comparing them to socially prevalent norms of beauty. At that time meaning was conventional; hence art or architecture was judged primarily by comparing it to prevailing social standards. This approach made the critic’s job wonderfully easy, but of course it was also problematic because it meant that people were paying more attention to an abstract cultural...
...stay with me. It didn’t leave me with any food for thought. And that’s why I get nostalgic sometimes—because, in a way, me talking about Gehry’s building is even worse than some 19th century critic talking about a naked lady. At least that critic was aspiring to a discussion of meaning, even if he was only applying an a priori cultural norm. The most I can do right now is admit that the Disney Hall looks pretty damn cool and wax poetic about my experience...
Like many who spread rumors of a new draft, McGregor failed to note that H.R. 163 was sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), a liberal Democrat and consistent critic of the president and the war in Iraq. All of his co-sponsors are also liberal anti-war Democrats. Do these people really want to give the president what McGregor describes as “a cost-free standing army at his disposal?...