Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good time for architects, painters, goldsmiths, furniture makers, costume designers and jewelers. According to the historian Charles Osman, Pope Leo X was so totally preoccupied with beauty and culture that his contemporaries "doubted even if he were a good Christian, but were certain that he was a good art-critic...
...Sandinistas and the contras see eye to eye on very few things, but the two sides did agree that Nicaraguan Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, 62, should mediate their cease-fire talks. Not anymore. After overseeing two sessions since January, Obando, a longtime critic of the regime, was abruptly dismissed last week by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, 42. Though the contras objected to Obando's ouster, Ortega named his younger brother, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega, 40, to head a government delegation that planned to hold the Sandinistas' first face-to-face meeting with rebel leaders this week...
...Arts and Sciences stems from more than a critic's desire to be a writer. The book was written in "the aftermath of an unhappy love affair to cheer myself up," Mallon says. One of its main themes is the protagonists inability to cope with their feelings about each other and their affair...
MASLIN'S argument isn't scintillating and she doesn't come to any valid conclusions. Second movies are often bad. So what? Maslin is not our most perspicacious movie critic (she rhapsodized over John Hughes' last teen flick, Some Kind of Wonderful). But writing for The Newspaper has certain responsibilities. One of those is not to make potentially racist suggestions, like the one that Black directors should limit themselves to making movies about sex. She insinuates that Lee should go back to where he came from--back to low budget, back to struggling...
Samuel Hynes, 63, is a literary critic (The Auden Generation, The Edwardian Turn of Mind) and a professor of English at Princeton. These accomplishments do not figure in his narrative, which ends a few months after the war and Hynes' service as a Marine dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific. Looking back, the author is convinced that members of his generation, who grew up not in college or at jobs but training for battle, shared a secret that "made us different from those who were older or younger than ourselves, or who were...