Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson identifies Mr. Long as a "campus critic." I hope in the future that the Crimson's efforts will reflect greater accuracy. Had the writer consulted the United Ministry, we would not have proselytized but we might have set him straight. Larry N. Hill President, The United Ministry
...critical standard, Fatal Attraction is no masterpiece. The plot has holes you could drive Beth's station wagon through. (How does Alex get Ellen out of school? Why didn't the family dog bark when Alex breaks into the Gallagher house? Why can't Dan hear the final struggle a floor above him, and why does the bathroom tile floor leak water?) The threat to Ellen's pet rabbit can be smelled three reels away from payoff; that hare is high. Lyne's visual style, with its grab bag of slick thrills and cheap tricks, is clever but unoriginal -- hack...
...N.Y.S.E. closes two hours early with a minute change in the Dow (up .33 points, to 1950.76). Pondering the incredible week, Manhattan Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, a staunch critic of Reagonomics, says he sees a new world in which governments are "held hostage" by the financial markets. He adds, "We really do not know what we've created. It's high tech and it's transnational and more powerful than anything we could ever have imagined...
...satire. Inspired by his heavy readings--Nietzsche, Camus, and the like--Umstetter pens a prison drama called "Weeds" and directs it in San Quentin. Weeds, the movie, is the tale of Umstetter's exploits once he's been paroled through a campaign initiated by an impressed San Francisco drama critic. Umstetter and his fellow ex-convict thespians take their show on the road...
...talent. The first time we see her, however, the main focus is her exposed cleavage which jiggles while she applauds. When Lillian discovers that Umstetter has lifted his masterpiece from Jean Genet's Deathwatch, she couldn't care less. After all, she's the food and drama critic. The screenwriters make her a middle-aged Barbie Doll, and raise the role above its flimsiness...