Word: criticize
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...performances were culled from hundreds of hours of recordings by Sedgwick Clark, a musicologist and critic, who has sought to showcase the Philharmonic's sustained virtuosity in a wide range of repertoire evenly distributed over its broadcast seasons. Listening to the selections (and reading the 144-page book of essays, interviews and notes) provides a rare opportunity to experience the changing approaches to music-making and the evolution of recording technology over the past 75 years. (The set, which retails for $185, is available at select Tower Records stores, or it can be ordered directly from the orchestra by phone...
Finkelstein, who is known as an ardent critic of Israel, also wrote in the article that the Holocaust was "seized upon and methodically marketed because it was politically expedient," by Zionists...
...community policing does have its critics who charge that police officers become, in the words of one critic, "like social workers," instead of focusing their energies on solving crimes...
...critic of mild demeanor (aren't we all?) sat in a screening room, sucking on a Ricola as he watched The Boxer, with Daniel Day-Lewis as Danny Flynn, a Belfast prize fighter unjustly jailed on a bombing rap, and Emily Watson as the girl he left behind. The critic dutifully tabulated each blunt plot point, each refried cliche ("I'm not a killer, Maggie, but this place makes me want to kill"). And yet, when Danny's nemesis did something monstrously rotten, the critic was so enraged by the dastardly act that he had to stop himself from spitting...
DIED. BRENDAN GILL, 83, urbane man of letters; in the city he campaigned to preserve, New York. A generalist of wide-ranging talents, Gill began and ended his career at the New Yorker, alternating as a columnist and critic--of architecture and just about everything else. He wrote poetry, novels (The Trouble of One House), plays (La Belle), biographies (of Cole Porter and Frank Lloyd Wright) and even a best seller: Here at "The New Yorker...