Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largely researched and written by a staff of six. Not that it matters much to publicists for the Hollywood studios, who have made Craig as ubiquitous a brand name in the movie world as Dolby Stereo. He is probably the most prominent of a new crop of movie blurbmeisters: critics and critic-wannabes who seem to exist mainly to service the studios with glowing quotes to hype their latest releases...
...number of critics are annoyed at colleagues who supply blurbs in advance. "It fuzzes the line between the critic and the publicist," says New York Post reviewer Jami Bernard. "Crafting a sentence that would read well on an ad is not the kind of sentence that would look good in a review. It just brings shame on us all." WCBS-TV's Dennis Cunningham, one of the more restrained broadcast critics, blames the movie companies for "letting it be known that they want wretched excesses or nothing. There used to be people at the studios who wrote ad copy...
Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who has been an outspoken critic of Mackinnon was quoted last week by the Harvard Law Record as saying that she "plays so loose with facts, data and statistics that she doesn't pass scholarly muster...
...wonderfully charming because she's so delightfully evil. Bart St. Clair delivers his performance with great finesse, versatility, and fun. And Brian Martin's Tess provides a colorful parody of New Jersey chic, which leaves an indelible (indewibo) impression (impweson) upon the unsuspecting critic (cwidduck). In fact, most of the female leads display a refinement of drag seldom witnessed beyond the confines of Manhattan and San Francisco. They work it and they work it good. At times its just good, but usually it's so completely awful it's great Seldom has kitsch been given such lively treatment...
...consequences for cultural integrity and social peace have not been complex. The largest ethnic group -- nearly one-quarter of the U.S. population -- turns out to be one of the least visible, a template of assimilation. "I have often thought that the Germans make the best Americans," wrote the critic Karl Shapiro, "though they certainly make the worst Germans." German Americans assimilated partly because of two world wars with the old country, but also because the Germans who came here -- Catholics and Protestants, peasants and city dwellers -- were so diverse. It takes cohesion to stand apart: Germans in America...