Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Missing from his critically lauded Critic TV show: an audience...
...book, Route 666, rock critic Gina Arnold examines the rise of college radio in the wake of the birth of punk in the '70s: "When mainstream radio lost its grip on music, then the long-dormant airwaves of the college radio stations...became an invaluable American network...the inevitable conduit for all the independently released records to be given their due. They played the unheard music...
...official and popular response to Schindler's List was a mixture of benumbed awe and gratitude. But, as in the U.S., some critics charged that the film, by focusing on the few survivors of Nazi genocide rather than on the millions of dead, turned a continent's horror story into a fairy tale. In the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, historian Tom Segev dismissed it as "Spielberg's Holocaust Park," called the Auschwitz sequence "pornography" and concluded, "Spielberg needs the Holocaust, but the Holocaust does not need Spielberg." In the German newspaper Die Welt, critic Will Tremper headlined his review "Indiana...
...credits came on the screen and the beautiful jazz music Harlem is so famous for began to play, I heard a critic next to me whisper to his companion, "This is going to be "New Jack City Two."" While I have not seen "New Jack City," the original, I can see why my neighbor would say this. The subject matter, I have been told, is the same: the horror and entrapment of the drug trade. This would make sense since both "New Jack City" and "Sugar Hill" were written by Barry Michael Cooper. "Sugar Hill" merely makes it a cliche...
...Editor's note: Seth Mnookin, Fifteen Minutes's on-again, off-again cultural critic, has not been seen within the idyllic confines of The Harvard Crimson for some time now. Rumors as to Seth's mysterious whereabouts abounded: some were terrifying, like the one that had Seth vacationing with Kurt Cobain in Europe. Some were just plain ugly. Imagine the things we heard! Why, one speculator guessed that Seth was pimping under an assumed name in Morocco. In any case, FM had just about given up on ever hearing from Seth again when we received this memo, brought in late...