Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote is still out on how well Rosenzweig and Aretsky are doing, but there are some early returns on the fare, all of which is new or redesigned. After one lunch in the bar and two dinners in the second-floor dining room, this critic can report that the answers to the burning questions about changes, so far, are yes and no. The public and banquet rooms at "21" are nearly the same, but they are brighter and fresher. An eccentric addition to the lobby is a life-size wooden horse, a 19th century conceit that is the pet purchase...
TIME Senior Writer and Film Critic Richard Corliss watched his first movie, Cheaper by the Dozen, at age five in his hometown of Philadelphia. Eleven years and countless boxes of popcorn later, he viewed Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and was struck by the realization that films could be more than mere entertainment. That marked the beginning of a fascination with the cinema that took Corliss to the Cote d'Azur to report this week's two-page Show Business story on the Cannes Film Festival...
Twelve years ago, Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and now better known simply as "the fat one," was asked if he would appear on a new movie-review program being produced by WTTW, the local PBS station. He was intrigued by the idea but not by the prospective costar: his archrival from the Chicago Tribune, Gene Siskel. "The answer," Ebert recalls, "was at the tip of my tongue: no." Nor did Siskel, now frequently referred to as "the other one," relish the thought of sharing a stage with "the most hated guy in my life...
...journalism degree from the University of Illinois, went to work for the Sun-Times at age 24 and landed the movie-reviewing spot a year later. Siskel, 41, majored in philosophy at Yale, became a reporter for the Tribune at 23 and the paper's film critic soon afterward. They have been aggressive rivals in print ever since, though the competition hit a snag last year when the Tribune removed Siskel as daily critic and relegated him to feature pieces and capsule reviews...
...reflection upon Nietzschean critic and philosopher Paul de Man's tendency to regard "subjectivity itself as a rhetorical effect rather than a cause" observes that we become what we choose to read through the filtering composite "differences" of our individual experience. Johnson proposes that the politically correct reading lies in that which "encounters and propagates the surprise of otherness." The search for this "otherness" becomes the goal of interpretation...