Word: lambast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Slime," Zappa has to his credit rock's choicest statements on mass euthanasia (though admittedly, because their babies are treatin' them bad, other songwriters rarely address such topics). Zappa's critical eye looked beyond the government and Vietnam to the covert "moral faseism" of American society. While others lambast politicians and corporate honchos, he criticizes everything and everyone. Zappa has increasingly maligned the music business for becoming an industry that manufactures popular tastes as well as loveable records. He shows listeners how their minds can be transformed into commercial by-products...
...grappling brand of opinionation (and largely because of it), her review slot at the New Yorker has often produced sparkling minor masterpieces. She's become the Chopin of the pan. When she lights into "Lost Horizon," the multi-million dollar clunker in Reeling, it's a virtuoso performance. "To lambast a Ross Hunter production is like flogging a sponge," she writes. "He is to movies what Liberace is to music, and once, on a television talk show, I saw them both. . .and the two unctuous smiles came together. Mr. Bland and Mr. Bland...
...newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell," said Wilbur F. Storey regarding the aims of the Chicago Times in 1861. Storey was talking in a day when newspapermen would not hesitate a minute to lambast the Establishment. Today's large-circulation papers tend to be part of the Establishment. San Francisco's Examiner and Chronicle, for instance, are so comfortably settled that the Bay City has become one of the worst-newspapered cities in America...