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Lee Siegel
American
Critic
Born:
Dec 5
,
1957
His
Life
Love
Own
Time
You
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I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.
Lee Siegel
Entitlement
Mediocrity
Throws
Badly
React
Tantrum
Very
The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself.
Lee Siegel
Sometimes
Political
Everyday
Indefinitely
Definitely
Dread
Threat
Faceless
Purposes
Feels
Terrorist
Itself
Cloudy
Interchangeable
Manifested
Present
Vague
I love the Internet; I'm on it all the time.
Lee Siegel
Love
Time
Internet
Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.
Lee Siegel
Women
Black
Men
Films
Spike
Various
Outrage
Since
She
Gotta
Lee
Romantic
Groups
Ever
Enjoyed
Every man is a hero to his alias.
Lee Siegel
Man
Hero
Every
His
Every Man
Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.
Lee Siegel
You
People
Think
Everyone
Responsibilities
Seems
Thriving
Self
Develop
Come
Being
Fantasy
Fleeing
Who
Why
In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.
Lee Siegel
You
Partner
Else
Meet
Crimes
Someone
America
Romantic
Urban
Much
Product
Inherit
A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.
Lee Siegel
Life
Hope
You
Charity
Single
Resolve
Visions
Moral
Week
Through
Takes
Redemption
Terrors
Encounters
Oprah
Escape
Celebrity
Hard
Bondage
Violent
Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused with the life of the religion's founder. Above the testimony of Oprah's guests hovers what viewers know about Oprah's experience.
Lee Siegel
Life
Religion
Experience
Own
Every
Guests
About
Above
Rituals
Know
Testimony
Aura
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Just
Viewers
Show
Founder
'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.
Lee Siegel
Made
Primarily
Hotel
Audiences
American
American Audiences
Product
It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.
Lee Siegel
Life
Time
Problems
Inevitable
Address
Way
Those
Television
Would
Part
Became
Because
Itself
Ordinary
Mundane
Flow
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