Word: criticalness
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...period wonder, of slightly more than the nine days it took to write a book, with no current relevance. A half-century later, people may be puzzled by his impact, and the society that devoured or derided his work. (Trust me: 50 years from now some aged critic will be asked to explain the long-ago popularity of Adam Sandler. Good luck.) That may explain why Spillane's death didn't make the front page of the New York Times...
...less-than-subtle move, Shyamalan adds a film critic to the cast of characters, all but shattering the fourth wall from the movie’s outset. But when the Lady asks Shyamalan’s character to do nothing short of—seriously—saving the world, ignoring the director’s metatextual presence is a lost cause. Even off-screen, he is visibly descriptive with his camera work, framing original point-of-view shots and probing angles that sustain the film’s suspense...
...Emmy). But he was best known for his stage work, in particular his moving turn as a poor gardener who, having just died, haunts his foster son in the 1978 Broadway hit Da. The role won him a Tony and a rare rave from notoriously cranky critic John Simon, who compared him to the "Gielguds, Oliviers and Richardsons...
...issue also included instructions in "Sexercise" by Bonnie Prudden, whose was then fitness guru on the Today show, and "My Search for a French Tickler in Japan" by young Mimi Sheraton, later the Times food critic and a food writer for Time. (I didn't read to the end to see if she found one.) "The Brothel in Art" featured works by Hogarth, Utamaro, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso. The book excerpt was from the 18th century novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, which the Supreme Court would absolve from the charge of pornography on the same...
Explorations of these personas fill up much of Reichl’s memoirs, “Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise,” making them more like a literary pupu platter than a gourmet multi-course meal...