Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astute critic of a sedentary society that pretends to be perplexed by the problems of its underclass, Lessing offers a message that is both progressive and reactionary. Dorothy emerges as the hero, but she is a throwback to a time when women and the lower classes were, if anything, worse off. Lessing's depiction of the post-feminist world of the 1970s offers the vision of a grand-mother, rather than that of a young crusader. Lessing's nostalgic proposal looks backwards and is, ultimately, no proposal...
...generated by Madonna. Although she has darkened her hair, is costumed in almost pristine propriety and speaks in grave, restrained tones with no hint of her trademark teen defiance, her entrance halfway through the first act evokes immediate gasps of recognition. From there, opinion sharply divides. New York Times Critic Frank Rich hailed her for "intelligent, scrupulously disciplined comic acting." Clive Barnes of the New York Post said, "There is a genuine, reticent charm here, but it is not ready to light the lamps on Broadway." But most first-nighters implied she had been hired for celebrity rather than talent...
...other modern critic has written asforcefuly about reception theory in Romanceliterature," Rigolot said...
...time Buckley founded the National Review in 1955, he had abandoned ambitions to be a political philosopher. The long scholarly pull did not suit his polemical talents and gregarious nature. His friend Literary Critic Hugh Kenner put the matter concisely when he said that Buckley "was simply moving too fast to think, by which I mean that thought had become reflex...
...decades between his initial job writing about politics and his assignment as chief press critic, Griffith held virtually every editing position at TIME, earning praise as a friendly, unflappable manager at each turn. He also served as the editor of LIFE, a contributing writer for FORTUNE and the senior staff editor of all Time Inc. magazines. Along the way he took time to write two books, The Waist-High Culture (1959) and How True: A Skeptic's Guide to Believing the News...