Word: criticals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...done what many political experts thought was impossible. He reconciled his administration and himself to the state legislative leadership, mollified the press, and convinced people he would be more than just a one term governor. State Sen. Alan Sisitsky, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a vocal Dukakis critic remarked last week that "conventional wisdom says he can not be defeated" for re-election...
Whatever the reason for the TV version's popularity, it did not necessarily have much to do with artistic merit. Leading TV critics had, at best, serious reservations about the series, and many panned it outright. The Chicago Sun-Times' William Granger, complaining of "puerile" writing and "caricatures," described Roots as "so transparently bad at times that I was filled with embarrassment." TIME'S own critic, Richard Schickel, labeled the TV production as "Mandingo for middlebrows." He wrote that Roots offered "almost no new insights, factual or emotional," about slavery; instead, there was "a handy compendium of stale melodramatic conventions...
...years before he died, Charles computed that he had earned only 15,982 francs and 60 centimes from more than two decades of scribbling. The reigning critic of the day, Sainte-Beuve, referred to Baudelaire as a translator and journalist rather than a poet. Small wonder the writer identified himself with that other 19th century comet, Edgar Allan Poe ("not a kindred spirit but a twin"), whose work he introduced to France. Indeed, Baudelaire made more money from his Poe translations than from his own poems, essays of self-scrutiny (Intimate Journals) and art criticism (The Painter of Modern Life...
...originators of rock 'n' roll, the musical from embodied many things, some gesture of cultural or political rebellion against the main-stream being crucial among them. But today, as critic Jim Miller points out, "Rock is first and foremost a member in good standing of the American entertainment industry, welcome in Las Vegas and Holl wood, on the screen and over the air, in homes and theaters...rock gossip sells newspapers; rock concerts pack stadiums; rock records dominate the radio." Not surprisingly, Rolling Stone Press is chasing in on this trend, coming out with a new, oversized (though not outrageously...
...creator and editor, Clay Felker, but also Design Director Milton Glaser, Managing Editor Byron Dobell (who agreed to stay through a brief transition) and 20 other editorial hands, including such notables as Tom Wolfe, Financial Writer George ("Adam Smith") Goodman, Washington Reporter Richard Reeves, Ms. Editor Gloria Steinem, Press Critic Edwin Diamond and Gail Sheehy, bestselling author (Passages) and Felker's companion...