Word: criticals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years Chamorro had been a relentless critic of Strongman Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza and his family, who have ruled the nation for more than four oppressive decades. His death caused a political earthquake in Nicaragua, and his funeral quickly dissolved into a political event. A crowd swelling to 40,000 followed the coffin from the hospital mortuary to Chamorro's home and then to La Prensa's office. The angry marchers moved on to burn a Somoza-owned textile mill and a commercial blood bank that Chamorro had exposed for selling Nicaraguan blood abroad at a lucrative profit. Some...
...York Magazine Critic John Simon [Dec. 26] (with whom I've had no contact, to my knowledge) cannot be a very happy...
John Simon is not appreciated by most writers of book, theater and movie chat because he is what they only pretend to be: a critic. Like earlier critics with a well-defined aesthetic point of view, Simon writes lucid and scholarly essays-works of art in themselves...
Some observers speculate that the South African government might have deliberately allowed Woods to escape in order to free itself of a political nuisance. If so, this was an odd miscalculation, since the eloquent Woods aims to establish himself as a critic in exile. "Whenever [a government spokesman] pops up to sell South African soap abroad," he told McWhirter last week, "they'll have to deal with me on the same platform." Until recently. Woods added, "I had gone along with the belief that South African politics should be left to South Africa to sort...
...Trib has a fresh, modern look, and its newsroom is equipped with the latest in computer terminals, on which copy is fitted and transmitted to its New Jersey printing plant. The slim editorial staff of 77 includes two Pulitzer prizewinners, Managing Editor Fred Sparks and Art Critic Emily Genauer. With only a single bureau-one man in Washington -the new paper will rely heavily on United Press International and Reuters for national and international stories. Its resemblance to the old Herald Tribune is largely in name only, and even that is in dispute. The owners of the International Herald Tribune...