Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hammer's exports have also raised British blood pressure. "I feel inclined to apologize to all decent Americans for sending them work in such sickening bad taste," wrote the London Observer's Critic C. A. Lejeune after seeing Hammer's Curse of Frankenstein. This hardly worried Colonel ("The King of Nausea") Carreras. Frankenstein's production cost: $270,000. Its worldwide gross: $7,500,000. Net profit for Hammer...
...incorporated whole walls of glass into his buildings. Last week the California Palace of the Legion of Honor had the best of Maybeck on view in a large photo exhibit, which Californians hope will spread Maybeck's fame as an architect, and one of the great romantics. Wrote Critic Lewis Mumford: "But for Bernard Maybeck's fine reticence, his work would have been hailed long ago as the West Coast's counterpart to Wright's prairie architecture...
Despite lack of sales, Tinguely has his critical admirers. One critic has called him a new Prometheus "who has subdued the demon machine, forcing it to produce satisfyingly random results." Another has hailed "an entirely revolutionary art," adding: "This art knows neither beginning nor end nor future; only eternal transformation. It is the exemplary materialization of relativism." Tinguely agrees. Says he: "In my paintings, there is only pure event, pure transformation. If you want to stop the painting and look at it, don't buy my work. Go buy a Van Gogh...
...Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein celebrated the acquisition with an unusual whoop of pleasure: "A good case could be made for this as the finest single painting in the Legion's permanent collection...
...critic who makes judging a matter of principle-who keeps criticizing instead of trying to understand-is rather like a man with a cane, alone in a garden, decapitating weeds and flowers alike. Anything that has size or mystery about it stands in danger...