Word: criticize
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William Paul '60, Mallinckrodt professor of applied physics, has been a longstanding critic of the administration's operating costs. Many Faculty members say they appreciate his pointed questions about administrative growth...
Virtually every Indian film is a musical. The songs, lip-synched by the actors but sung by "playback artists" who are also stars, dominate the pop charts. This is pop opera, dealing with emotions so convulsive they must be sung and danced, in a solemn, giddy style that critic Peter Rainer calls "Busby Beserkeley." Production numbers, like the eight or nine in God Is My Witness, are simply a declaration of passion by other means...
...Great Books (Simon & Schuster; 492 pages; $30), David Denby, film critic for New York magazine, recounts a personal odyssey. Some 30 years after taking the two core-curriculum courses--Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization--at Columbia University, he takes them again, traveling with students several decades younger the long road from Homer to Woolf and Socrates to Nietzsche. Denby finds the so-called--and currently much maligned--great books more exhilarating the second time around: "They scrape away the media haze of second-handedness." The overarching impression left by his account is that education may be wasted on the young...
...record 10th gold medal, hasn't been named to the relay team yet, despite an injury to Leroy Burrell. But it appears likely he will be added to the team later Friday, when Coach Erv Hunt analyzes video of this morning's race. Mitchell, who has been an outspoken critic of Lewis, said he would give up the anchor leg to Lewis. "I'm not saying I'd be happy about it, but as a team captain, I'd do it for the good of the team," he said. Meanwhile, Michael Johnson, who completed his historic 200-400 double gold...
...somnolent postwar theater needed. Vladimir and Estragon, two tramplike figures in a blank landscape, pass the time in Act I "blathering about nothing in particular," as Estragon notes, while awaiting the arrival of the never-to-arrive Godot. They spend Act II doing the same thing. As one critic said, "Nothing happens, twice...