Word: criticize
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Enter Carlin Romano, book critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Writing for the leftist weekly The Nation, Romano started off his review of Only Words on a decidedly personal note, "Suppose I decided to rape Catharine MacKinnon before reviewing her book." Not exactly objective journalism. But by writing about deeds he did not do, Romano is trying to expose the absurdity of MacKinnon's argument that words and pictures equal deeds...
Liberals at Stanford claim that the administration is moving to the right. Yale professor Stephen Carter, a critic of affirmative action, has already been invited to speak at Stanford's Commencement in June...
...called the whole period when women's studiesrose "When Vendler Slept," Paglia said. Vendler,she said, had been a vocal critic of women'sstudies in the early 1980s, but since coming toHarvard, "she's been morally neutralized by hergreed for power...
Demme, sanguine with success, is ready to absolve the most rabid critic of Philadelphia. "We knew we were bound to tick somebody off," he says. "Actually, I was hoping to catch the ire of Jesse Helms -- that sort of terminally closed-minded person. I made this movie for people like me: people who aren't activists, people who are afraid of AIDS, people who have been raised to look down on gays. I feel we've connected with those people, and we've also generated press for the opposition. If everybody agreed the movie was great, it'd take...
Oddly enough, some of the most sensitive work dealing with homosexuality can be found on TV. Murphy Brown and Roseanne have featured amiable gay characters; how far behind TV dare the movies be? As film critic David Ehrenstein says, "The entire history of the cinema is about the mass audience forging an emotional identification with people whose experiences are not like theirs. You don't have to be a dockworker to identify with Brando in On the Waterfront or a Southern belle to identify with Scarlett O'Hara. If you create a persuasive character, the audience will come...