Word: criticize
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Mapplethorpe is most famous for his entanglement with the protracted and unintentionally humorous debate over funding for the National Endowment for the Arts in the late eighties. Always a contrarian, the critic Robert Hughes turned up his nose at Mapplethorpe by virtually ignoring him: "Conservative," he sniffed, "in every sense but the sexual...
Regardless, Morrisroe has created a memorable portrait. She knows her subject well, though in the end, it was Mapplethorpe who may have been his own best critic. In a chilly bit of self analysis, a passage that comes closest to untying what Morrisroe calls the "Gordian knot" entwining art and sexuality. Mapplethorpe says: "When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera I forget I exist...
...least one doctor has been even more outspoken about the conflict between the Hippocratic oath and the cost-controlling imperatives of the HMOs. David Himmelstein, 45, an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School and a persistent critic of for-profit HMOs, signed on a year ago with U.S. Healthcare, a $2.9 billion behemoth whose 65,000 doctors and 2.3 million members make it the largest HMO on the East Coast...
DIED. BUTTERFLY MCQUEEN, 84, actress; of burns received while lighting a kerosene heater; in Augusta, Georgia. In 1937 the New York Times theater critic noticed "the extraordinary artistry of a high-stepping, little dusky creature who describes herself as Butterfly McQueen." Two years later, the world saw McQueen as Prissy, the comically incompetent slave in the film classic Gone With the Wind. Her panicked "Lawdy, Miz Scarlett. I don't know nothing about birthing babies!" became one of the most quoted lines in movie history--and in later years, a focus of criticism for fitting an "Uncle Thomasina" stereotype. Ironically...
...KLEIN MANTRA MOUNTAIN BIKE One early critic said it looked like a "flying knockwurst," but the Mantra has since enlightened cyclists who have actually used it. The bike's design--especially its active suspension--make it a superb hill climber. Now its strange look and hefty price have assumed yuppie chic...