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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough caffeine in my system, I also feel asleep during some of the movie. Fortunately, Todd and I discovered that at least one of us was awake for at least 90 percent of the movie. This made us feel a little bit better before we decided to write this review...

Author: By Terrance A. Dee, | Title: Can You Pluralize 'Stupid?' | 8/5/1994 | See Source »

...provocative idea, particularly coming from a self-described feminist. But it would probably never have propelled Sommers onto the talk-show circuit if the New York Times had not assigned the book to be reviewed by an academic feminist of the very sort Sommers decries. The June 12 review, by University of Pennsylvania professor Nina Auerbach, airily blew Sommers off as another "muddled" example of conservative backlash: "In Ms. Sommers' world, there are no powerful men, only women shrieking irrationally in a vacuum," wrote Auerbach. "But her treatment of social issues is so thin that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEAS: A Feminist on the Outs | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

Soon the Times was deluged with letters from furious Sommers supporters, who said the paper should have realized that it had assigned the review to someone who was attacked (although not named) in the book. In her July 3 reply, Auerbach acknowledged that she had attended one of the academic summits that Sommers derides but added that the book made no mention of the paper she gave there and "I therefore do not consider my presence to be a conflict of interest in reviewing the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEAS: A Feminist on the Outs | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

Budd began the discussion with a review of theKing case and an explanation of why the fourpolice officers were tired twice...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Prosecutor Says Justice Served | 7/29/1994 | See Source »

...Cassidy say a review of Lee's personal bank records revealed that the money deposited into Lee's account from the Eliot House Jimmy Fund account was withdrawn by July...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Skating on Thinner and Thinner Ice | 7/26/1994 | See Source »

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