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Maslin contends that Lee succumbed to "fiscal seductions" and that the musical numbers in Daze were beyond Lee's "technical abilities." Maslin also says that while She's Gotta Have It was "enjoyable small," Daze, which she called "bigger, bolder" in her original review, was a failure. She's Gotta Have It, Maslin writes, "may not have aimed this high, but on the other hand it hit its mark...
...concludes with a request. "Do me a favor," he writes, "don't review my work anymore." I don't remember hearing Lee gripe when Vincent Canby called She's Gotta Have It "a witty, low-keyed comedy." He can't have it both ways. If he wants audiences to see him as a Black director making movies for and about Blacks and take him at his word that he doesn't want the white press to review his work, then he's destined to remain outside of the mainstream, and we're sentenced to miss out on an original talent...
...ways than one. Many women specialize in non-traditional fields or take feminist approaches to their research. The fact that men often judge their work leads to subtle or blatant biases blocking the route to tenure; this is exacerbated by the dearth of available female senior faculty able to review their record. Says Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Alice A. Jardine, "Junior women faculty are not only discriminated against because they're women, but also because senior male faculty don't agree with their work...
...Fang Chien, who teaches a section of Historical Study A-14, "Tradition and Transformation in East Asia: Japan," said she stressed the opportunity for peer review at the WritingCenter. Chien said she is "hoping to get morethought, more thinking ahead, [and] more planningabout the argument" in her student's papers...
Estrich made first made history when she became the first woman president of the Harvard Law Review in 1976. This year she stands alone again as the only woman campaign manager in the Democratic field...