Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...falls to another turnaround pro, Jerry Levin, 54, to pick up the pieces, and few expect fast answers. "The business is in lousy shape," says Andrew Shore, an analyst at Paine Webber. Shore, a Dunlap critic who recently baited Chainsaw Al by publicly asking him to work for $1 a year until the stock recovered, pegs any turnaround at two years...
GENE SHALIT, film critic, the Today show: "Encino Man [1992; 3] or Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia [1974]. I had to go to the emergency room after each...
That steamy story line contrasts with the romantic fantasies and crusty musings of Don Rigoberto, an antisocial anarchist and cultural conservative who sounds like another overheated Austrian, the Belle Epoque critic Karl Kraus. Or perhaps Vargas Llosa's alter-Egon, used to seduce the reader. Rigoberto coos about the fleshy pleasures and fulminates against vulgarity and cant. He dismisses all art described as "brilliant" and rejects all ideologies as "leveling forms of oppression that are generally worse than the despotisms against which they rebelled...
JOEL SIEGEL, film critic, Good Morning America: "There are evil movies, like Triumph of the Will [1934], and incompetent ones, like Plan 9 from Outer Space [1958]. But then there are plain dreadful movies, like The Bonfire of the Vanities [1990; photo...
Deane's silken prose eventually weaves the thousands of shards of the narrator's family together into a whole, however unhappy. His blend of the happy and solemn is moving at times, worrisome at others and fascinating always. Although Deane, a professor at Notre Dame and a published critic and poet, is no stranger to writing, Reading in the Dark is his first venture into fictional territory. The boundary between poetry and fiction, especially for Deane, with that glowing prose, is not as stringent as that between the two Irelands; with any luck, this novel will not be his last...