Word: criticize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sight of Michael Walsh striding down the corridors of TIME's New York City offices can mean one of two things. Either there's a major new production imminent at the Metropolitan Opera. Or it's dealmaking time in his baseball Rotisserie league. Walsh, TIME's classical-music critic and author of this week's story on American orchestras, has been based in Munich, Germany, since 1989. But he keeps alive an impressive array of cross- cultural interests. Besides traveling the Continent to cover cultural matters for TIME International, Michael is finishing a book on the Nazi era; is midway...
...Biennale is the world's oldest modern art festival, dating back to 1895. Every two years a commissioner is appointed to oversee its structure and content. This year the task fell to a Neapolitan art critic named Achille Bonito Oliva. Bonito Oliva is a mini-celebrity in Italy, an imbonitore, or bustling promoter, of groups and movements, who gave the '80s its silliest piece of art jargon, "la transavanguardia," the "trans-avant-garde." He wanted to create a Biennale that would transcend national differences and illustrate "cultural nomadism." To put it charitably, his talents are not up to the task...
...GENIUS; Richard Strauss held him in awe; Puccini said he could give away half his talent and still have plenty left over. Schoenberg? Stravinsky? No, the recipient of these accolades was a wunderkind from Vienna named Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The son of the city's leading music critic, young Korngold had written a large body of music before he turned 15, including a piano sonata for Artur Schnabel, and achieved international success in 1920 at the age of 23 with his romantic opera Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City). It seemed possible that he would go on to become...
...book Hollywood vs. America, critic Michael Medved sounded a shrill warning to the movies to clean up their act. He feels vindicated by the new tendency to softer movies, yet he is not quite satisfied. "Most people do not understand the difference between PG and PG-13," Medved claims. "We should call the PG-13 rating R-13, which would be much more reflective of what...
Still, the dispute within the Athletic Department over women's sports has been bitter and, at times, personal. The day after The Crimson ran an article on the treatment of women's teams, Carole Kleinfelder, the women's lacrosse coach and an outspoken critic of the department, found her truck tires slashed in the parking lot of the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Center--an act Kleinfelder believes was likely a response to her criticism of the department...