Word: criticalness
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...impressed with the nomination of Bernanke than they are with that of Harriet Miers. Bernanke, they warn, doesn't share some of their basic positions on issues such as taxation. By contrast, curiously enough, Paul Krugman - standard bearer of the Left in national economic debates and often a fierce critic of Greenspan - appears to welcome the nomination of his former Princeton colleague, although he fears that Bernanke's tenure at the White House may have compromised his independence...
...none of its own. Hausmann, along with John Heartfield - formerly Helmut Herzfelde who anglicized his name to show his opposition to the war - among others, pioneered the field of photomontage. Hausmann's fierce, cut-and-paste man in a militaristic pose is not a soldier but The Art Critic. Not that Dadaists cared what critics thought. In fact, they bequeathed us the enduring notion that art is what the artist says it is, an approach taken up with gusto by people such as Hirst and Koons. In describing the readymades of Duchamp, fellow Dadaist Breton called them "manufactured objects promoted...
...artist and photographer Alison Lapper, has stirred debate across London, not just over the meaning of art but also about the city's evolving identity. To some, the sculpture's prominent display owes more to political correctness than to aesthetic merit--"Purely empty, deeply bland and silly," says art critic Matthew Collings, author of This Is Modern Art. Others call it an uplifting tribute to womankind. But more interesting than the reactions it provokes are the ones it doesn't. If the sculpture has met with less than universal acclaim, it has also failed to spark much outrage or spray...
...lead a horse to electroclashtastofreakadancefolkyfunk, but you can’t make him drink it. If someone doesn’t like what the rock critic community likes, they don’t usually listen to it. If their friends make them feel like fools for that, it’s the friends that are the problem...
...button and the devil arrives. Kilmer: I married a girl from England, so I wouldn’t know about that. THC: So, Shane, are you a big Pauline Kael fan? Black: No, no. I had no idea that [renowned, now-deceased New Yorker film critic] Pauline Kael, God bless her, had ever written a book called “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”…Actually it was based on James Bond, who was referred to by the Japanese at one point as Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and that subsequently became the title...