Word: criticize
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...culture's most powerful critic was taking his shot. On the Oct. 19 episode of The Simpsons, Bart walked up to the blackboard and, in his signature scrawl, covered it with the phrase, "I no longer want my MTV." Meanwhile, the MTV-Hater's Page Website offered a chat for "all those who are sick of MTV's mass of nonmusic-related programming." Even the demographically challenged Howard Stern, whose own audience is more Pat Benatar than Puff Daddy, realized he could score easy points by harping on the service's lack of videos. Yet despite the welling demand...
JAMES COLLINS is our newly appointed television critic. It sounds cushy, but think of all the awful programming he has to watch. O.K., so maybe Ally McBeal had a few redeeming moments. This week Collins examines the prevalent notion that TV must be bad for preschoolers. Surprisingly, he found children's experts in favor of toddlers' watching TV--in moderation. Good news for Collins, father of two girls--Elizabeth, 2, and Virginia, 11 months. "Now that I know that TV won't rot my kids' brains, I may be a little less strict about it," he says. That...
...lawsuit details 12 instances in which inventions of Chase-Riboud have allegedly ended up in the shooting script. However, at least to a critic's eye, many of the examples appear to be trivial or forced. For example, the suit alleges that Chase-Riboud invented the notion that the rebellion's leader, Cinque, had a son, which is also suggested in the film, but other histories say he did indeed have children. One of the suit's most substantive claims is that both works include a fictional black abolitionist who aids in the Africans' legal case. But there...
...critic Robert Hughes would have the sensitivity and perspective to see artist Robert Rauschenberg [ART, Oct. 27] as the Walt Whitman of the 20th century art world? Who could better distinguish the American character of Rauschenberg's work than a critic who just completed a marathon book on our visual culture, American Visions? KIT BASQUIN Milwaukee...
Lieut. Arthur Lewis can be an exacting critic. As he leafs through a children's coloring book, his mustache twitches, and his eyebrows collide in a scowl. But now, Lewis turns to three small girls standing in front of him, a smile on his face, and pronounces their efforts superb. As a reward, the young artists receive three quarters apiece, enough for each girl to buy a "poor man's" sandwich at Harold's Chicken Shack. In most parts of America, this qualifies as an after-school snack. Here, on the South Side of Chicago, it's dinner...