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...reportedly took several weeks for Amazon to remove this comment - obviously the work of a prankster with a bowel fixation. But on the World Wide Web, the portals are open to everyone with an opinion, even if he is not who he seems. In 2001, everyone?s a critic, with his own cute handle (such as Chuck Schwartz, Cranky Critic?) or year-end 10 Best list (Harry Knowles of the popular ain't-it-cool-news.com picked the defiantly weird Requiem for a Dream as his No. 1). The web is where traditional criticism is democratized, where the ?lite meet defeat...
...perhaps, you detect the tramping of sour grapes. To read a piece about online reviewers by a critic who has done most of his work in print is to hear the roar of a dinosaur, noisy but anachronistic, trying to drown out a freeway full of SUV?s. And I admit this: I share your cynicism. General-interest magazines like TIME have reduced the space devoted to reviews and expand their entertainment "news" coverage. The voice of the traditional print critic, uttering lofty dicta from his Victorian armchair, has become both fainter and more shrill. That?s why many...
...According to Ung-aang Talay, veteran food critic of the Bangkok Post, a tasty nam chim sauce can tip the balance between a good seafood restaurant and a great one. Of the two bustling open-air nighttime eateries on either corner of Soi Phadungdao (a.k.a. Soi Texas) at Yaowaraj in Chinatown, he recommends Rut & Luk on the northwest corner for its "aggressively seasoned" sauce. The restaurant's specialties include tiny mollusks grilled in their shells and whole fish baked in foil with black pepper and garlic. Those looking for something similarly substantial during the day should follow the lunchtime crowds...
...Hughes' article "The Poetry of Pastry," on the paintings of Wayne Thiebaud [ART, July 16], I was stopped by a word very fitting but never before imagined. In describing Thiebaud's painting of pies, Hughes wrote of "coconut icing soft and fluffy as a baby angel's wingpits." Your critic outdid himself with that one. As a columnist for a small-town newspaper, I appreciate the need for a word that really fits. I've made up a few, but wingpits conjures up a physical tickle. Hughes is a treasure. JEANNE FRESHWATER Nehalem...
...whole city leadership. The I.O.C., for its part, is still reeling from a vote-buying scandal connected with next year's Salt Lake City Games. "The Olympics are about construction contracts, and this is a perfect marriage of two corrupt organizations," says British author Andrew Jennings, a longtime critic of the Games. But the stadiums, the politics, the potential corruption?all that will play out over the next seven years. For now, Beijing celebrates. "Here's to the Olympics and here's to China," said reveler Wang Yifei as he clinked an overflowing bottle of Beijing beer with fellow celebrants...