Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beds, Clinton has left behind him the political corpses of Al D'Amato, Bob Livingston and Newt Gingrich and the wounded reputations of Starr, Henry Hyde and their colleagues. Who will replace them? Last Wednesday night, at a reception for Senator John McCain, Senator Phil Gramm, a scathing Clinton critic, eating an overflowing plate of red meat, looked as if he might serve as the new nemesis. Gramm was going on about how it was his constitutional duty (sound familiar?) to block censure (remember censure?), and would filibuster if need be until the last dog died. On Friday, when Gramm...
...assumption has been that Ellis is a dark, wry, social critic and his obsessive cataloguing of yuppiedom is just a tongue-in-cheek way of exposing our cultural depravity. This point of view gives Bret Easton Ellis far more credit than he deserves...
This pragmatism is a faith that recalls nothing so much as the objectivist philosophy of the novelist and social critic Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), which Greenspan has studied intently. During long nights at Rand's apartment and through her articles and letters, Greenspan found in objectivism a sense that markets are an expression of the deepest truths about human nature and that, as a result, they will ultimately be correct...
GINIA BELLAFANTE joined TIME in 1992 and since then has turned out the People page, served as our television critic and written last year's much discussed cover story on feminism. This week she returns to the TV beat to examine the phenomenon of hit television shows aimed primarily at female viewers. "These shows, whether or not they are smart or sophisticated, at least represent an effort to appeal to the rather large number of women who do not look as though they have been put together by a stylist," says Bellafante. The programs include the new hit series Providence...
...Well, my own point of view is pretty out there. I am a critic of consumer society. It is my intention to give a critical perspective. I would like to see students question themselves and society. I want to provide a little perspective on materialism. My own hope is it will get them thinking with a set of theoretical tools to question the natural order of things...