Word: criticize
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Tartikoff, 45, won't exactly be panhandling next week at the annual * convention of the National Association of Television Program Executives. He will be peddling Last Call, a new late-night talk show featuring a panel of journalists and critics (among them former Esquire editor Terry McDonell, entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell and London Times correspondent Sue Ellicott) discussing the day's news. Designed as a sort of hip McLaughlin Group, the pilot looks more like an MTV remedial class for the news-impaired (after trading quips about Michael Jackson, these hang-loose journalists scoot over to a pool table...
...more proof that words have consequences, there is Carlin Romano, book critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer. His Nov. 15 review of MacKinnon's work in the left-leaning weekly the Nation set off a war of words that is reaching new heights of animosity. Romano, a former philosophy instructor, opened his review with a hypothetical proposition. "Suppose I decide to rape Catharine MacKinnon before reviewing her book. Because I'm uncertain whether she understands the difference between being raped and being exposed to pornography, I consider it required research for my critique of her manifesto...
Further vengeful hints have come from MacKinnon's companion Jeffrey Masson, the critic of Freudian orthodoxy whose libel suit last year against New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm hinged in its own way on the importance of maintaining distinctions between what actually happens and what is merely imagined. (He charged that in her profile of him, Malcolm had invented scenes and quotes.) Masson assured Romano in a letter that "I am not threatening you." That was just before he added, "I want you to know, if there is ever anything I can do to hurt your career, I will...
...door, Anderson doggedly went on to win approval in 1990 for the historic and eventually successful gene-therapy trials of the two girls with ADA deficiency. The final committee vote was 16 to 1, the only opposition coming from Mulligan, who has been Anderson's most vociferous critic, and who called the proposal "bad science...
There is already talk of a genetic backlash, a revolt against the notion that we are our genes, or, as one critic put it, that our Genes R Us. John Maddox, editor of the journal Nature, warns that the greatest pitfall of the genome project may be what he calls the "inescapable triumphalism" that accompanies a rush of discoveries, leaving the impression that geneticists know a lot more than they do. Studies claiming to have found genes for alcoholism, for instance, have not held up under scrutiny, but many people still assume such complex behaviors may be predetermined by heredity...