Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outspoken critic of rent control, Galluccio instead supports subsidies to help renters eventually purchase their own property...
...mummify you in packing tape, give you a quick shampoo. When waiters announce the fish course, beware--you will get damp! There are also fat ladies in skimpy costumes, a man who plays Vivaldi on liquor bottles, an opera singer treated rudely by the maitre d' and a food critic who can't stop complaining. "It's like eating at Denny's!" he shouts. The whole thing plays like a Teutonic Olsen and Johnson-Heilzapoppin...
Which is fine with him, for Jarrett has long been an outspoken critic of the music business's preference for image over art. In a pungent 1992 article for the New York Times, he obliquely blasted Branford Marsalis for selling out to the Tonight Show and generally laid waste to the music scene. "John Coltrane could not have led a television band," he complained...
...There's something icky in Woody Allen's compulsion to write scripts about fifty-something guys ready to dump their wives for nubile waifs the approximate age of Soon-Yi Farrow Previn," notes critic Richard Corliss. This was the story of 1992's "Husbands and Wives," and it returns in this tale of a sportswriter with a pretty, peckish wife and a five-year-old adopted son. Allen's take on marriage is bleak, clueless; he sees it as a prison for two, where the condemned finally rise to a level of reciprocal pity. But in spite of all this...
...learned from his grandfather ''the ability to detect the false notes in those arias that our shepherds lull their sheep with"--and in fact his story sparkles when he deftly exposes the hypocrisies of Hollywood and Washington. As a writer he is at his best as an uncompromising critic, and at one point turns his sensibility on himself with sharp-eyed accuracy: ''In this text," he writes, "I am not moving toward anything that I am aware...