Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Georges Auric's score; and while he secured his permissions, his act of lese-majeste has apparently upset the French, who are sensitive about their cultural icons. The Philip Glass Ensemble has not been invited to perform La Belle in France, and, what's more, not a single French critic has reviewed it elsewhere...
...life of baseball great Ty Cobb -- who once held 40 major league hitting and base-running records and whose lifetime batting average of .367 is still unsurpassed -- is not about baseball. It's about a venomous, wife-beating racist who saw himself as a genius. TIME movie critic Richard Schickel says some filmgoers may think this is a "messy movie, sometimes repetitive, sometimes too compressed and allusive." Still he says this is "irrelevant in comparison to the horrific fascination of his story...
...Seattle-sound" machine Pearl Jam has done it all: screamed about adolescent rage, crooned about adult pangs and complained about the unfair ways of the world. Does the band still have something to say?TIME music critic Christopher John Farleyreports that while the group's new album "has its share of stinkers" it proves the band is still an important force in rock. It "explores in more depth some of the themes the band has touched on in the past: alienation; the glory of youth; mortality; the difficulties that come with living in the public eye," Farley says...
...during one of the big pret-a-porter ("ready-to-wear") shows in Paris last spring. Using the movie's incredibly disparate and big-name cast -- ranging from Stephen Rea to Sophia Loren to Danny Aiello -- Altman goes after the glamour society's pretensions and pointlessness. But, saysTIME Movie Critic Richard Corliss, Pret-a-Porter "is a high concept poorly executed."Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
Interestingly, most people to whom I've mentioned my concerns have assumed that because I'm demanding these statistics, I'm a critic of affirmative action. They implicitly assume that the numbers, if made available, would indicate that racial minorities' performances are below average. This may not be the case...