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...leave for India and, for good measure, extort ransom from them. "The condition of religious minorities has become terrible under the present government," says Subrata Chowdhury, a Dhaka-based Hindu human-rights lawyer. The brutal attack on well-known intellectual Azad, a moderate Muslim who is an outspoken critic of Islamic fundamentalism, has also led many in Bangladesh's intelligentsia to believe that they too are now being systematically targeted by Islamic radicals because they advocate secularism and tolerance. "How can you have intellectual freedom when you don't know whether you will come home safely in the evening?" asks...
...Villella) and the Suzanne Farrell Ballet in Washington. Countless other Balanchine alumni are serving as ballet masters, choreographers and teachers. ?No other modern choreographer has attracted so many devoted followers, and no other body of dances has inspired so thoroughgoing and committed an attempt at long-term preservation,? says critic Terry Teachout, who is writing a short biography of Balanchine. ?It?s a sign that the Balanchine style may be evolving into a lingua franca for ballet in the 21st century - a common language of dance spoken by everybody, everywhere...
...summer a couple of decades ago, my distinguished colleague Richard Schickel bemoaned the lot of a film critic assigned to write about the seasonal pack of muscle-bound action pictures. ?It?s not that they?re bad movies,? he said. ?It?s that they?re the same bad movie.? Our job, essentially, was to make cutting witticisms - to distinguish not between apples and oranges but between rotten apples and rottener...
...truth, critics don?t mind parading their rage or contempt now and then; and one nagging secret of the trade is that there are many more synonyms for awful than there are for terrific. (I shudder when a critic describes a movie he saw two days before as ?unforgettable.? And if I read ?riveting? one more time as an adjective of praise, I?m going to get out my riveter and hunt the critic down.) In larger truth, we live in an age of contempt. Like a talk-show host or a Presidential candidate, a critic of the popular arts...
...That's cool ... but I don't know who Cary Grant is." FRANKIE MUNIZ, 18, TV actor, after being told that a critic had described him as the "Cary Grant of kid stars...