Word: criticize
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...several cases of child abuse by Catholic clergy in Newfoundland during the 1960s. Airing in two parts -- Sunday and Monday -- on A&E (check local listings), the graphic drama raises troubling questions about the physical pain experienced by the young boys and the mental agony tormenting their abusers. TIME critic Richard Corliss describes it as "the most compelling, repellent and edifying horror movie of the decade," one with a complex message. The heroes in this film are "small, frightened boys or grown men who need to see righteous revenge achieved for the boys they once were...
Oxford historian Theodore Zeldin argues that even after 7,000 years or so of human civilization, we have just begun to exist. Each chapter starts with a capsule biography of people who embody contemporary concerns. Most of them are women from France, which Zeldin describes as his "laboratory."TIME critic John Elsonsays the book (HarperCollins; 488 pages; $25) "offers a quirky but intellectually dazzling view of human history as a potential guide to a glorious future...
Based on the critically acclaimed book by Nicholas Lemann, thisfive-part documentary series-- airing Sunday, Monday through Wednesday and Saturday on the Discovery Channel (check local listings) -- is about the 1950s black migration from the oppressive conditions of the Mississippi Delta to the then-booming city of Chicago.TIME critic Richard Zoglinsays the understated narration by Morgan Freeman, evocative music and plainspoken words of people who lived through it, make it a must-see. Its "unhurried gravity is something close to poetry," Zoglin says...
...doing it worth so much travail? This now paranoid critic thinks so. Adair's translation is an astounding Anglicization of Francophonic mania, a daunting triumph of will pushing its way through imposing roadblocks to a magical country, an absurdist nirvana, of humor, pathos and loss. Go forth to your local bookstall or library, pay $24 for or borrow a copy of A Void, and savor it slowly. But stay wary and vigilant, and mind your ps and qs, to say nothing at all about your ... Aaiioouugh...
...never wrote a dissertation or thesis and thus did not earn degrees. ASSASSINATED. GREGORIO ORDONEZ, 36, deputy mayor of the Basque city of San Sebastian and regional leader of Spain's opposition Popular Party; shot in the head by an unknown assailant as he was lunching. Ordonez, an outspoken critic of the Basque terrorist group eta, had repeatedly refused police protection despite death threats. DIED. JAMES GRANT, 72, impassioned director of UNICEF since 1980; of cancer, two days after resigning for health reasons; in Mount Kosco, New York. Under his leadership of unicef, the percentage of children immunized...