Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Western-style political campaign and nosed out President Chiang's favorite for the vice-presidency; months later, Chiang stepped aside to let Li have a chance at seeking peace with the Communists, then within sight of total victory. When Nationalist resistance collapsed, Li, a longtime critic of the Chiang regime, fled to the U.S., rather than Chiang's Formosa refuge...
...pendants drew little acclaim and no money. Today, his paintings of 1910-14 are the most valuable and the most fascinating to art historians, who see in them the first stirrings of surrealism. The first person to recognize them at the time was Guillaume Apollinaire, poet and influential art critic, who muttered that Chagall was "supernatural." Apollinaire rushed home to dash off a poem titled Rotsoge (a poetic moniker, deliberately foreign-sounding, by which he addressed Chagall), describing him as having hair like "the trolley cable across Europe arrayed in little many-colored fires." He did Chagall a better favor...
...China. Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, already interested in the nonalignment game, found U.S. aid to India reason to move more swiftly onto a path of warmer relations with Peking, and more recently, Moscow. Ayub's government-controlled press has also been a consistent critic of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, which no doubt influenced President Johnson's decision to withdraw his invitation to the Pakistani leader to visit the U.S. last April...
Harvey's creator is 33-year-old Ernest Pintoff, a gifted animator who put outsize satirical bite into such prizewinning cartoon shorts as The Interview and The Critic. In his first full-length feature in color, Pintoff has harnessed live actors to a dead horse. Harvey Middleman exudes a bogus air of originality, but is seldom funny enough to make its simplicity seem unpretentious...
...nods by candlelight, her face pale as death. A gypsy wedding scene seethes with movement, but the movement is angry, and the arm of the old man in the foreground seems to be raised in menace, his mouth seems to bellow wrath. Although Bihalji-Merin, who is an art critic and historian, limits the accompanying text to purely artistic comment, the pictures themselves project an unforgettable image of a hard life in a stern and somber land...