Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stirling has had some exposure in the United States as well. Besides teaching architecture as a visiting critic at Yale, he designed M.D. Anderson Hall at Rice University, completed...
...critic sampler: "low budget...mediocre brick laying...vigorous...an answer to our dreams...aggressive...raw...full of creative virtuosity...ugly...worldly...
DIED. Helen MacInnes, 77, best-selling novelist of international intrigue; in New York City. Four of her 21 books, including Above Suspicion and Assignment in Brittany, were made into movies. She was married for 46 years to Gilbert Highet, the noted classics scholar and critic who accompanied her on European research trips and who died...
...well mannered as she is, Baldrige remains an articulate critic of misplaced pretension. Wine, she notes, is one subject that often seems to inspire such affectation. When drinking a restaurant's simple house wine, Baldrige advises, "don't discuss its pedigree or lack of one; just drink it and enjoy it without editorial comments...
...single, however, that will probably attract the most attention and provoke the greatest response. If, as Rock Critic Greil Marcus has skeptically suggested, the recent spate of concerts like FarmAid bespeaks merely "a craze for charity," then Sun City represents a step toward outright activism. The accustomed structure for all such undertakings is present: participating musicians worked free, recording studios donated facilities, Van Zandt covered his own expenses, and Manhattan Records will donate all of the profits to the nonprofit Africa Fund...