Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past decade, several U.S. swimmers have tested positive, including Angel Martino, who won two individual bronzes and two relay golds last week, after having been kicked off the 1988 Olympic team. "Drug use is epidemic," says Charles Yesalis, a Penn State professor of health policy and a critic of Olympic drug testing. "There's always doubt lingering in the background...
...Woody Allen (who, according to Levy, asked Lewis to direct both Take the Money and Run and Bananas), Steve Martin and, of course, Jim Carrey. As a solo act, Lewis has at various times been the highest-paid performer in film, on television and on Broadway. Levy, a film critic for the Portland Oregonian, does a skillful job of putting Lewis' career in historical context, from a creative as well as a business standpoint (the shift in power from the studios to stars and their agents was a major factor in Lewis' rise). Levy readily acknowledges the sloppiness and indulgence...
...give in to White House pressure (even if it was the right thing to do) and claimed they wanted to discuss Aldrich's expertise in security. Of course, scarcely a minute was taken up by that subject; the other nine were consumed by his scurrilous accusations. Washington Post press critic Howard Kurtz says the overall coverage of Aldrich marks the collapse of journalistic standards as we know them: "We've gone from needing two sources to needing no sources to someone being able to make something up and get us to report it. The hardcover is the fig leaf that...
...cover story on big- and small-screen aliens, recalls having to sleep with the light on after seeing the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers as a lad. "In a way, thinking about the terror a good movie could provoke made me want to be a film critic." Since 1980 he has been that at TIME, also reviewing theater, music, sports and the occasional theme park. He keeps an open mind on alien autopsies and abductions. His wife Mary, though, is a believer in editorial abductions, especially on those late nights when Corliss is in his TIME office, staring...
Mission: Impossible? well, maybe, since all that the characters in this superblockbuster [CINEMA, May 27] seem to want to do is just save their jobs. Although I agree with film critic Richard Schickel that the movie was so-so at best, I'd like to suggest that he see the film again, as he missed the deeper message. Whether or not it was their intention, the screenwriters have loaded the movie with psychosociological metaphors, turning it from an uneven, sometimes exciting, sometimes very so-so spy thriller into a study of current trends in corporate America and the escalating employment...