Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incorporate the successful elements into their own projects. The first two Batman movies were wonderful exceptions to this rule. Sadly, however, the third one is not. Granted, "Batman Forever" looks fresh, with a new director, new set design and a new actor -- Val Kilmer -- portraying the Caped Crusader. ButTIME critic Richard Corlisssays director Joel Schumacher forgot to give the movie life -- "the energizing spirit of wit and passion that makes scenes work and characters breathe." Despite dueling star turns from villains Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones, "Batman Forever" is little more than a series of set pieces with...
...Conroy's mammoth new novel "jumps onto your lap like a large shaggy dog that will do anything to get your attention," says TIME critic R.Z. Sheppard. "It's friendly but still has teeth." The author populates "Beach Music" (Doubleday; 628 pages; $27.50) with memorable characters, but unfortunately burdens them with the entire bloody history of the 20th century. "Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy," says Sheppard, and so is some of Conroy's rhetoric. The Pat Conroy who wrote "The Water Is Wide" and "The Great Santini" is conspicuously absent here, leaving...
KATHA POLLITT POET, WRITER AND SOCIAL CRITIC...
STANLEY CROUCH CRITIC...
...when she was swept aside by the Goldwater rush). She showed a prickly independence that often put her at odds with more doctrinaire members of her party. She backed F.D.R.'s New Deal legislation, opposed two of Richard Nixon's Supreme Court nominees and was a withering early critic of her red-hunting colleague Joseph McCarthy...