Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before the press screening started, I told the man behind me, a critic from AP Radio how nervous I was this that movie would not live up to its position in the series. When he tapped came on at the end of the show he tapped me on the shoulder. "I think you've got a winner," he said. I couldn't agree more...
Kathryn Harrison's new novel (Random House; 317 pages; $23) about the Spanish Inquisition is, according to TIME critic John Skow, "very good, and a complete surprise." The story follows the separate torments of two women caught in their society's lunacy. Francisca, a young woman in love with a priest, is found out and routinely and grotesquely tortured; Maria, the new bride of the Spanish king, is tortured in a different way by the couple's inability to produce an heir. Skow notes that although the parallel tales of the two women are a bit awkward, the novel...
...success is virtually assured. Indeed, in remarks made at the fcc meeting, three commissioners telegraphed their belief that Murdoch had already succeeded. In launching a fourth U.S. TV network, he satisfied a long-sought commission goal of stirring increased competition among the networks. Commissioner James Quello, a critic of the investigation, stated that he would like to waive the 25% limit immediately. He asked, "Why mess with success...
Both stars give Tide a pedigree and, despite any critic's cavils, a safe shot at being the year's first big hit. Not a Red October: a Crimson summer...
Perhaps this letdown might have been avoided had Amis included more than one of the seven deadly sins. Pride has possibilities. Then again, envy is not an insignificant emotion-not even in a book review. If not as envious as the caricatured Tull, a critic is still the sort who thinks faster when standing on someone else's feet than when standing...