Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the legacy of the transportation system is strong, Australians have been eager to obliterate what came to be known as the "hated stain." They succeeded so well that there was no comprehensive popular history of the country's penal-colony origins until Robert Hughes, art critic of TIME and author of The Shock of the New, finished his project, which he began more than a decade...
Fifty years a food critic, M. F. K. Fisher talks about pretentious cuisine, overhyped chefs -- and the simple joy of mashed potatoes...
M.F.K. (for Mary Frances Kennedy) Fisher is the grande dame of American food writers. Her passion for cuisine, conveyed with a novelist's supple prose in 17 books published since 1937, inspired a host of other writers to take up the craft of food criticism. One such is TIME's critic, who recently visited Fisher, now 78, in California's Sonoma Valley. Her report...
...black" Pentagon program, with neither the aircraft's general performance nor its cost open to outside inspection. Industry rumors, however, claim the plane is already $2 billion over budget. "After seven years of testing, the Air Force still couldn't deliver a serviceable B-1B," said one critic. "Who knows what mistakes are being made behind the black wall of secrecy surrounding the Stealth bomber...
...critics are panicked that you won't turn off the color. They propose to do it for you. "It's a decision the public shouldn't be forced to make," says Critic Gene Siskel. The Minister of Culture could hardly have said it better, though some of the subtlety might be lost in translation from the Russian...