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...Richard Corliss...
...always gentle and generous but never one to mince words when she felt a piece of writing fell short of her standards. Her praise for sharp thinking was warm and inspiring, and her critiques of fuzzy stories were softened by wry humor and kindness. When movie critic Richard Corliss, new to the magazine in 1980, submitted the beginning draft of his first cover story to Martha, she responded, "The first three paragraphs are O.K. The fourth one had better sing...
...convinces her that she should do the writing, on his body. "Any Peter Greenaway (Drowning by Numbers, The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover) film is a complex word-and-picture game -- of stories within stories, images within images, like a Chinese puzzle box," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "The director also insists that his actors throw themselves, soul and especially body, into his complex revenge scenarios. It's lovely that, in an age when pop culture dances with the dunces, someone has the mandarin urge to arouse and test his audience. Lovelier still when, as in The Pillow...
...convinces her that she should do the writing, on his body. "Any Peter Greenaway (Drowning by Numbers, The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover) film is a complex word-and-picture game -- of stories within stories, images within images, like a Chinese puzzle box," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "The director also insists that his actors throw themselves, soul and especially body, into his complex revenge scenarios. It's lovely that, in an age when pop culture dances with the dunces, someone has the mandarin urge to arouse and test his audience. Lovelier still when, as in The Pillow...
...Richard Corliss. Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles