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...CRITIC'S CHOICE EXPLORATIONS OF THE LIVES...
...CRITIC'S CHOICE IF LINDY HAD LANDED IN THE WHITE HOUSE...
...could just be the church's appropriation of Hollywood salesmanship: luring audiences with promises of a movie and some good talk, as the Journey's Searcy offered. Finding a Christian message in secular films like Catwoman and Spider-Man could be either a delusion or, as Jeffrey Overstreet, a critic for Christianity Today says, "a way of affirming that God's truth is inescapable and can be found even in the stories of people who don't believe...
...mainly of housewives who?ve got the day?s cleaning and shopping worries ahead of them.? Yet Phyllis was clairvoyant about issue-oriented daytime TV. She told the Washington Post: ?Women want to hear about other problems besides how to fix flowers in a pot.? Jack Gould, the TV critic for the Times, agreed. In a 1952 roundup of the medium, he highlighted ?It?s My Problem? as a show that ?provides a thoroughly adult discussion of child psychology and family difficulties...
...many critics dismiss Davis, 56, as a purveyor of schlock, the Lawrence Welk of New Age. They are not impressed that Mannheim Steamroller, whose name derives from the German for crescendo, has performed twice at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree or that right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is a big fan. Romantic Melodies, a recent CD that scored the biggest week-over-week sales increase in Billboard history, was scorned by one critic for "anesthetic properties (that) would surely soothe ... in a proctologist's waiting room." Another compared Mannheim's violin-heavy harmonies to an orchestra...