Word: criticize
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Last month our art critic, Robert Hughes, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a group founded in 1780 by John Adams, the country's second President, to allow people of "genius and learning to cultivate the arts and sciences in the new nation." Considered one of the most prestigious scholarly institutions, its membership is heavily academic. Along with Hughes, only 15 people in the fine-arts fields were elected this year -- among them cellist Yo Yo Ma, choreographer Jerome Robbins and sculptor Richard Serra...
Outside her health-care mission, there is probably no title that could + convey the scope of her role, although Counsellor to the President was batted around for a long time. As always, she is her husband's most trusted confidant, best friend, toughest critic and most ardent cheerleader. She is open but vague about how much they share. "We'll say, What do you think about this? or Give me an opinion about that. It's kind of give-and-take, pretty informal." And then there is complete access. "During the day I can see him anytime I want...
...began to buy in earnest, first through his friend the American painter William Glackens, and then during his own trips to Paris. His main aesthetic guide in collecting was art critic Leo Stein, Gertrude's brother. His intellectual mentor was the educator John Dewey, whose book Democracy and Education formed his ideas about education for "the masses" through art. After 1918, Barnes' acquisitions became obsessive. His biggest spree was in the early '20s, when he went charging through Paris waving his checkbook (earning the disapproval of Gertrude Stein, who thought him vulgar) and haggling like a mule trader. The postwar...
...flaky, perhaps, as Libby Gelman-Waxner, the yenta film critic whose column appears in Premiere magazine. Rudnick denies he is Libby: "She is a genius. I wouldn't dream of taking credit for work of that caliber." He is too modest; the Rudnick voice can be heard in every purring line. Example: "Howards End transported me, the way movies and catalogs are supposed to; I wanted to call up and order Emma's life, Helena's skin and all the jewelry...
Public TV series that aim to educate often benefit by having a knowledgeable guide at the controls -- witness wine writer Hugh Johnson, who was host of Vintage, or art critic Robert Hughes, cicerone of The Shock of the New. The narrator of Dancing is Raoul Trujillo, a marginally telegenic modern dancer- choreographer who reads his lines with unconvincing passion. Under a more pungent guide, Dancing could have skipped a lot of repetitive propaganda. By series' end, viewers will have heard the word culture so often that some may be tempted, like Hermann Goring, to reach for their revolvers...