Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every work of popular art is political, says TIME critic Richard Corliss, and the good ones are more than that. "Pocahontas," a handsome, deeply-felt animated Disney musical, is a good one. Though the film has drawn fire from critics who say it is not historically accurate, and praise from others for its sympathetic portrayal of American Indians, both sides are missing the point. It's just a cartoon, for gosh sakes, a familiar boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl story. And a well done story at that, says Corliss, "a film romance that earns a place...
...sequel to Richard Ford's highly acclaimed 1986 novel "The Sportswriter" picks up loquacious narrator-hero Frank Bascombe six years after the previous book left off. The new book, says TIME critic Paul Gray, repeats the effective formula of "The Sportswriter:" a flurry of intense activity in the present combined with Frank's ruminations on a past that still troubles him and whose meaning he would like to pin down. Unfortunately, he never does, says Gray, and in the end Frank "remains a bigger mystery to the reader than he is to himself."Previous TIME DailyCampaign...
...hard, cold cash changes hands in these transactions, but they are nevertheless transactions. It may be true, as fashion critic Michael Gross says, that "fashion journalism is an oxymoron.'' Still, a basic assumption is made by readers of these service magazines-namely, that the editorial judgments reflected in their pages are not made by people accustomed to receiving gratuities from designers. But here's how it really works: "It's very important to the designers to have editors wear their clothes," explains retailing consultant Vicky Ross in a classic bit of understatement. It cuts the other way too: the fashion...
...pages; $23) offers in his second novel a happy discourse on love and the nature of the words "I love you." De Botton comes to realize that these words can be a question, a prompt or an opening bid. "Light as a souffle, and no less addictive," saysTIME book critic Pico Iyer, "The Romantic Movement is that happiest of artifacts, a novel that smiles."Previous TIME Daily
...when Huck and Jim floated down the Mississippi, a ready-made metaphor. It's a much more difficult, and much less interesting, trick for Bone, the 14 year old narrator of this book, who's stuck not with a river but a mere shopping mall, a place whereTIME book critic John Skowsays "you can sort of float, but not too far, just around in the same old circle, which gets kind of boring even if you manage to score some decent weed." Thursday's TIME Daily