Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some attorneys in the U.S. are [NATION, June 22]. I guess Klayman thinks he is a very tenacious lawyer, but anyone who is suing his mother for $40,000, which Klayman says is owed him for nursing care for his late grandmother, must be "off his rocker," as one critic claimed. I'm a conservative, and I have no problem with people trying to keep the Clinton folk in line, but Klayman does not merit the limelight. LARRY CURTIS Mesa, Ariz...
...that Belle, who was pleading for adventure at the start of the musical is now more than content to do the can-can with silverware. Could Disney be sending out subliminal messages to young girls about how a woman's place should be in the home, or is this critic simply paranoid? After witnessing the feather duster (Heather Lee) grab at her breasts while proclaiming how attractive she is, this reviewer leaves you to make the call...
...feet with applause. And why not? B and B: The Musical basically resembles a great big picture book of the original cartoon, with everyone screaming even louder and drawing out the funny lines even longer. Is this truly what people look for in a musical? The night that this critic attended the performance, it certainly seemed...
...nothing of kids, who have a harder time distinguishing real from vicarious. (And on some TV shows--say, Cops--there is no difference.) These studies were primarily completed before the spread of cable, Nintendo and the Internet into many a 14-year-old's bedroom. As social critic Sissela Bok writes in her new book Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment: "These sources bring into homes depictions of graphic violence...never available to children and young people in the past...
...wretched of the earth, Frantz Fanon's landmark work of revolutionary theory, the famed psychiatrist and social critic states that "the colonized man who writes for his people ought to use the past with the intention of opening the future, as an invitation to action and a basis for hope." Fanon, who published his treatise in 1961, intended his words to apply to Third World artists struggling to shatter the psychological and metaphysical shackles of European domination. How could he have predicted that, 37 years later, his writings would succinctly summarize the raison d'etre of a new musical movement...