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. The Opry succeeds where the Arch and Parthenon fail because it is not merely a tourist attraction but a vibrant part of the city's life, with a genuine, if regrettable, purpose-as a performance space for country music-while these latter two are self-conscious attempts to construct a symbol.
Peppered with wordplay, startling visual imagery, and near misses by the two lovers, the film has only one flaw, according to critics, namely that all the fancy footwork verges on becoming too self-conscious.
Baby boomers, a generation whose self-conscious identity was forged in the crucible of adolescence, now have adolescents of their own.
Although we do the best we can--and we think our best is pretty good--it would be an amazing coincidence if the result of all these opposing temptations and self-conscious calculations was exactly the same quantity and slant of Microsoft coverage as if there was no connection.
Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) are outnumbered by the detractors ("hopelessly overwrought and deeply dopey," Richard Schickel, Time ), who say 1) it's not remotely scary; 2) the sarcasm and self-conscious irony grow tiresome; 3) it's permeated with anti-Arab racism; and 4) the mummy isn't a real mummy, he's "a mutating Industrial Light and Magic Special Effect" (David Edelstein,