Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mira Sorvino, whose former boyfriend Quentin Tarantino was recently embroiled in a wee bar punch-up, had her own little confrontation at Cannes. For some reason Sorvino decided to attend a press event for a Johnny Depp-Roman Polanski movie. After it was fini, Sorvino was introduced to movie critic Jami Bernard, who wrote a biography of Tarantino. The Oscar winner angrily demanded to know why Bernard subsequently interviewed Tony Tarantino, her old flame's biological but very estranged father, for Premiere. "It was a cruel and immoral thing to do," she told the critic loudly. "I loved this...
...come on! Your critic Robert Hughes [ART, April 27] wrote that author Victor Hugo's "drawings make up one of the most striking testimonies to the image-forming power of the unconscious in all Western art." That statement is unconscionable. And the fact that Hugo produced 3,000 known or extant drawings does not make him an artist; most of us working artists produce that in just one year. And what is so unusual about Hugo's exhibit of talent in another field of the arts? Most artists share the ability to expand into other realms because of the need...
...people who write on, work in and think about technology are usually in love with the subject matter. Pick up a copy of Wired, or PC World, and you expect to see glowing articles about the latest release from Compaq or Microsoft. But a cheerleader's enthusiasm, not a critic's curiosity, pervades the entirety of society's views on technology...
...time, society learned to balance industry and community, regulating the functions and practices of the new economy in the interests of all. It simply took the sardonic gaze of the critic to get there...
...BURTON Congressman calls the President "scumbag." Again, lucky Clinton is boosted by a critic's blunder...