Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funny lines kept coming. Radio personality Jim Bohannon wondered how someone could date a woman as indiscreet as Linda Tripp. "You'd think if you unhooked you'd hear a dial tone." Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, the rather whiny Clinton critic from MSNBC, did something unique to the evening: she engaged in self-mockery, with a long riff on television "pundettes"--"someone who says the same thing over and over and over, but never wears the same dress twice"--and then, even more bravely, actually sang a smoky number called The Pundette Blues...
...Wellesley or BU ever lived up to your expectations of college life beyond Harvard? Try something a little different: Framingham State College. Tonight's selection in their International Film Series is Landscapes in the Mist, an example of Greek cinema (with the obligatory English subtitles). Following the movie, film critic Dr. Arthur Nolletti Jr. will lead a discussion. 7:30 p.m., College Center Forum, Framingham State College, State Street, Framingham. 508-626-4968. Tickets $6, $4 seniors and students...
Camille Paglia, a frequent critic of some of Harvard's most eminent humanities professors, decried the state of education last night before a standing-room-only audience at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum...
While traveling in Australia last summer, our art critic, Robert Hughes, saw an exhibition titled "New Worlds from Old: 19th Century Australian and American Landscapes" and read press coverage of it, which included a review by Patricia Macdonald in Australian Art Collector. After the exhibition moved to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., Hughes' review ran in our Nov. 2 issue. His first three sentences were very similar to the opening sentence of Macdonald's article. "To my embarrassment I seem to have cannibalized it, but it was entirely unconscious," says Hughes. "I apologize to Ms. Macdonald and to TIME...
...already know that Shakespeare virtually invented English. If we are to believe America's critic in chief, the playwright also invented human nature. In this tome the self-styled "Bloom Brontosaurus Bardolater" offers play-by-play essays that are a humane hymn to Shakespeare's continuing relevance as our "mortal god." If he does not quite prove his tremendous thesis, the author of The Western Canon amiably excuses himself on the ground that "explaining Shakespeare is an infinite exercise; you will become exhausted long before the plays are emptied out." Bloom may feel spent after 745 pages, but his essays...