SOURCE: "From Dinophobia to Gynephobia: He Said …," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, January 16, 1994, pp. 1, 9.

Schulian is an American journalist and critic. In the following negative review of Disclosure, he examines what he argues are stereotyped characters in "a polemic masquerading as a novel."

The decline of American manhood can be traced from a daffy heavyweight champion named Leon Spinks, who snuggled up with a lady of the night and awoke the next morning to discover that she had stolen his false teeth. Since then, of course, things far dearer to men than dentures have become targets in the war between the sexes. (Take a bow, John Wayne Bobbitt.) But not until the publication of Michael Crichton's Disclosure has it been so obvious that the women's movement possesses the power to turn an admirable male mind to guacamole.

Because Crichton has apparently convinced himself that testosterone is out...