Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever more preposterous allegations, nor has it prevented some credulous journalists, including Andrew Cockburn, a columnist for the Nation, from using Reed as a source for absurdly speculative accounts. None of those who are taking Reed's wild stories seriously seem to have asked why Clinton, a vocal critic of U.S. aid to the contras who even then was considering running for President, would have done risky favors for the Reagan Administration. But then again, answering that question would spoil...
...preposterous coiffure (Mr. Pesci's hair by Anthony Sorrentino). Other good actors are strewn along the winding story line like road kill; the only exception is Marisa Tomei as Vinny's wondrously sardonic fiance. Tomei's pauses in her derision -- "Oh. Yeah. You blend." -- can melt even a critic's reserve. The rest of the proceeding is smug and labored, stretching jokes about mistaken identity and prison rape into endless tropes. So go ahead. Enjoy the rabble- truckling comedy of My Cousin Vinny. Just don't feel good about...
Steinem also addressed another issue of great concern: the growing backlash against feminism. The author believes the popularity of personalities such as Camille Paglia, a vocal critic of the movement, is indicative of the problem...
...belong, first and foremost, to the baby boomers now coping with being in their 40s. Twenty-year-olds, says record executive Bowen, "are having their first romance, and we're talking about the third divorce over here." If rock is about feral impulses, country is about spiritual nourishment. Cultural critic Camille Paglia, who has celebrated the Dionysian power of rock music in her writings, believes the genre suffered an identity crisis as it moved further from the rural immediacy of folk and blues and lost its restless, questing spirit. "In rock you're getting middle-class suburban kids who have...
BARCELONA by Robert Hughes (Knopf; $27.50). The biography of a city of rebels and craftsmen, home of the first submarine and once the world capital of anarchism, as told in erudite prose and dazzling detail by TIME's veteran art critic...