Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leaming is acutely hostile to more critical predecessors, notably Charles Higham, who argued in The Films of Orson Welles (1970) that the director suffered a neurotic fear of finishing his movies. "A destructive book," says Leaming. Welles shares her animosity. In one of his expensively unfinished films, The Other Side of the Wind, which stars John Huston as an aging movie director attempting a comeback, Welles included a snotty critic called "Higgam." This role was played for a time by Director Peter Bogdanovich, who was also collaborating on a book, titled This Is Orson Welles, until Welles canceled the book...
After Deng's speech came an even tougher one by his most persistent critic, Chen Yun, 80. Chen remains an advocate of Soviet-style central planning and frequently cites numerous recent incidents of corruption, overproduction and economic dislocation to bolster his case for a restricted reform program. In last week's speech he suggested that Deng's rural reforms, which allow peasants considerable economic freedom, could lead them to stop growing food and turn to more lucrative industrial endeavors, like making tools, furniture, clothing or even traditional handicrafts. Chen also criticized the moderate growth rates envisaged by the new five...
Henry, who has just published a book on the 1984 election campaign, Visions of America, has been serving as TIME's drama critic since last winter. "The theater," he says, "is often the quickest of the literary arts to respond to social and political trends. At least in smaller-scale productions, there is more room for art for passion's sake...
When Physicist C.P. Snow and Literary Critic F.R. Leavis squared off in their two-cultures debate some 25 years ago, it was already apparent that science was reshaping language and that humanism was trying to give itself laboratory airs. Leftists hardwired literature to Marx's social engineering, psychoanalysis cut the classics to fit the couch, and professors of English gave their essays titles like "The Entropy of the Imagination." Today words like process, systems, positive and negative are plugged into common discourse like so many microchips. The result can be toxic to the imagination and mother tongue...
...fair co-ed Barbara. Then, after the destruction of the initial premise by the villainous Stiers, the plot divides itself into so many branches that by movie's end, there is no resolution of plot or character--no perfect ending to be revealed by some bad movie critic. The minor miracle at film's end is merely the impossible cap to an implausible development of character and situation, something only a cute ET could pull...