Word: acclaim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason for the widespread acclaim McMillan's book received was the depth of her characters and the web of personal relations that logically develop amongst them during the course of the novel. Whittaker skips over character development in favor of fancy establishing shots and slick symbolic poses that leave most people feeling as though they just missed something...
...committee cited Kedlaya's "progress on a tough problem involving outplanar partitions of planar graphs that has brought acclaim from experts, who emphasize that he has made more progress than many professionals who have tackled...
...style. For the past 40 years audiences have favored the colder, more analytical approach of pianists like Leon Fleischer, Gary Graffman and Maurizio Pollini. The brief romantic revival of the late 1960s highlighted his expertise with such composers as Chopin and Lizst, but Wild has never received the critical acclaim he deserves...
...impressive new Prospero has arrived on Broadway: the Royal Shakespeare Company's Patrick Stewart, well known to TV audiences as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation. In a performance he first offered to much acclaim last summer in Central Park, Stewart gives us a down-at-heels (barefoot, actually) aristocrat of lithe movements and piercing, narrow-eyed glances. Doubt and failure gnaw at him; he's a tatterdemalion schemer who knows, however potent his magic, that he's trafficking in forces that dwarf...
Other black actors--Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne--have drawn deserved critical acclaim, but none has achieved Washington's mix of box-office clout and acting craft. He is a black actor--proudly, fiercely so--who has succeeded in making that term merely descriptive, not professionally limiting. Few other actors of any color could sincerely say, as Washington does about fellow superstars Kevin Costner and Tom Cruise, "They haven't made any movies that I wanted to make. I haven't felt like I've missed anything." Yet he sees himself not as a standard-bearer but simply...