Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Broadway hails fair-to-middling work as genius so long as it succeeds. Along Shubert Alley, the ultimate critic is the box office, and Promises, Promises will doubtless satisfy that arbiter of taste. The show follows all the hallowed tac tics for promoting mediocrity into success. One does not gamble with $500,-000; one invests in the imitation of past successes. That means: Don't create -crib. Thus the plot line of Promises, Promises is derived from the Billy Wilder-I.A.L. Diamond film The Apartment, which was far sharper in lancing U.S. sexual hypocrisy, and the structure...
REMEMBER the second act of Peter Pan, when Tinkerbell is dying, and Peter turns to the audience and asks everyone to clap if they believe in fairies? The other day I read a critic who claimed it was all a dirty attempt to make the kiddies accept homosexuality. I was shocked. Not at the smut charge, mind you, but at the critic's inference that I believed in Peter and his boys at all. You just can't be brought up on television and still believe...
Cambridge City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, often a vociferous critic of Harvard, took time out last night to say that when it comes to a choice between Harvard and Yale, Cambridge's very own college comes...
...right hand produces a steady, lilting melodic line that can flow from originals to classic themes-as in Chopin Prelude/ How Insensitive, which leads from an E minor prelude into a bossa nova favorite with a similar mood and melody. Pretty good for a 15-year-old. As Critic Leonard Feather puts it, by the time Craig Hundley is old enough to shave, he might well be the best-known pianist in jazz...
...Producer-Director Milton Fruchtman, a crew of 25 worked nights for two months to get 25 miles of film and 650 still pictures, using a camera atop a 64-foot-high movable aluminum tower. Both the script and the overall editing are the work of a former TIME art critic, Alexander Eliot. Now a freelance writer of magazine articles and an author of books...