Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also unknown are Professor Hobbs' qualifications as a football critic. The retired 85-year-old geologist is a well known and still active scientist who worked for OSS from 1941 to 1945. But there is no record as to the volume of his football knowledge...
...Paris, Hollywood Producer Walter Wanger ran into an old French custom. Speaking before the American Club, Wanger rapped U.S. film critics as "immature and incompetent," singled out Critic Art Buchwald of the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, who had panned the Wanger-produced Joan of Arc. Forthwith, Critic Buchwald challenged Wanger to a duel. Sending no seconds, Wanger retorted: "A cheap...
...spent the war years in the U.S., admired "its vitality, its litter and its waste." Bad taste, Léger once remarked to Critic James Johnson Sweeney, "is also one of the valuable raw materials of the country. Bad taste, strong colors-it is all here for the painter to organize and get the full use of its power. Girls in sweaters with brilliant-colored skin; girls in shorts dressed more like acrobats in the circus than one would ever come across on a Paris street. If I had only seen girls dressed in good taste...
...Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams' drama about a genteel nymphomaniac, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critic's Circle Award in Manhattan two seasons ago. Last week, still thriving on Broadway, Streetcar threatened to become a parliamentary issue in London and a scandale in Paris...
...play in France. Adapter-Producer Jean Cocteau, Parisian jack-of-all-arts, had treated it to a few touches of his own. In each seduction scene, a spotlight shifted to a Negro woman doing a belly dance in the background. Cocteau had also salted the dialogue. One critic noted that he had used "merde at least ten times, and it was one of the milder expressions...