Word: criticize
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...they do not remember much from the days when the U.S. was viewed with undiluted reverence. Because they have traveled more widely, young Japanese understand America, warts and all, better than their parents did. They are both fascinated and repelled by what they see. Says Donald Richie, an American critic who writes on contemporary Japanese culture: "Young people view America as a dangerous wilderness filled with freedom and adventure. Embracing America is a way of rebelling against the strict paternalistic society at home...
Conservatives have never felt comfortable with George Bush. The man who, in 1980, was in favor of abortion rights and a critic of Reagan's economic policy, which he termed "voodoo economics," has never truly held the support of the Right. The last four years have served to vindicate those fears...
Interestingly, the one characteristic linking these two Jagger films is a bizarre kind of violence. New York Times film critic Roger Greenspun noted this similarity when he described an "initial voluptuous sadism" in Performance...
TIME editors have grown accustomed to Bob's forceful opinions and iconoclastic ways. The magazine hired him in 1970, when he was a free-lance art critic living in London. Senior editor Christopher Porterfield, then our London bureau cultural correspondent, recalls that Hughes expressed two concerns about going to work for TIME. "He wanted to know if he would have to cut his shoulder-length hair," says Porterfield, "and whether he would have to give up his motorcycle...
...back, of course. America, in its eager embrace of the new, industrialized and academized the idea of avant-garde production so long ago that the notion of an unpopular, provincial Modernism seems remote. But 60 years ago it was very much a fact. In 1932 a New York critic urged the Metropolitan to buy a Davis, suggesting that it should hang on "the landings of the stairways, or possibly the Tea Room" -- obviously not in the main galleries, where the main...