Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nations offered $25,000 for information leading to the capture of Somali warlord MOHAMMED FARRAH AIDID; now, according to U.S. intelligence sources, Aidid is offering $1 million for the assassination of retired U.S. Admiral Jonathan Howe, the U.N.'s special envoy to Somalia. Howe has been a particularly outspoken critic of Aidid...
This overall lack of unity is all the more frustrating because at least a few of the pieces capture the unique comic sensibility that informs her performances. In the better snippets here, Bernhard shows herself the best sort of critic of American popular culture and values--one who has unabashed respect and affection for the thing she critiques...
...through the film, and the women taunt and ogle him in a not-so-subtle commentary on the way men objectify women. Then Natalie lures him into her bedroom for a "tip," strips off his clothes and engages in a steamy midday roll in the hay. A startled male critic's first thought is that this is an odd place for a fantasy sequence...
Unfortunately, the scene is real. Humping the pizza boy, it seems, is some sort of statement about female empowerment. But as the others listen to the couple's moaning and discuss the interlude over white wine in the hot tub, a grumbly male critic starts to have serious questions. What happened to the ( pizza? Is all this really "an uncensored and undiluted glimpse into the heart, soul and mind of the modern American woman," as the press release says, or just a sappy brew of soap-opera banalities and feminist wish fulfillment? And would you please excuse us while...
...Parisian painting, Dubuffet had a comparable effect at the end of World War II. One critic headlined a review, in imitation of the Dubonnet ads one used to see on the Metro, UBU -- DU BLUFF -- DUBUFFET, and others were not wrong in detecting, in Dubuffet's entranced and ironic use of thick pastes, an excremental vision parallel to Jarry's. One of the portraits of French intellectuals in his extravagantly controversial 1947 show at the Galerie Rene Drouin depicted the Surrealist writer Georges Limbour under the title Limbour Fashioned from Chicken Droppings. And even critics who disliked such mordant images...