Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prime at 64. During the 1984 campaign, both sides noted that the winner probably would join a short list of very fortunate Presidents--Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Taft and Franklin Roosevelt--whom fate allowed to mold the court in their own images. For that reason, says Tribe, normally a critic of the Burger era, "I'm for mandatory life-support systems for the current court." But no such emergency intervention is necessary for the moment. The present high bench, with its fragile coalitions and its elderly Justices, seems set to go on, at least for the remainder of this term...
Schickel, a TIME Cinema critic, ruefully considers all aspects of celebrity, including the dark facet of notoriety. John W. Hinckley Jr. stands as an exemplar, a recipient of that "wildly parodistic version of celebrity treatment that is accorded the criminal who has assaulted a well-known person. He gets a police escort and a motorcade . . . For the first time in his hitherto anonymous life people will be curious about his history, his thoughts. In due course, his ravings may find their way into print. Or he will have his story told by a famous novelist...
...Alan Paton, the outspoken liberal critic of apartheid recently remarked, "I will never give any support to any campaign that will put men out of jobs not even if they promised me that it would bring Chernenko down Or Reagan Or P.W. Botha...
Perhaps the most experienced critic is former Justice Arthur Goldberg, who writes in the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly that the high court could save considerable time if the Justices were less verbose in their opinions, concurrences and dissents, and if they screened more efficiently the 4,000 petitions for review they receive every year...
...Rousseau was very conscious of style, and loved referring to other art. "I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of stubborn labor," he wrote to a critic shortly before his death. He wanted his work to be a homemade replica of the values enshrined in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, as manifested in the big French Salon painters: Jean-Leon Gerome, Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Felix-Auguste Clement. He loved their important subjects, their grasp of the colonial exotic, their professionalism and high finish. So when artists 40 years his junior like Picasso...