Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like you believe that ghost crap, but also talking in rhythm is totally loopy. And if I'm not mistaken, when I read between the lines, it seems that you have an unresolved Oedipal complex. I suggest therapy. Your problems are so complex that not even a good literary critic could figure them...
Everyone's Critic...
...merit was involved in the nomination of the documentary Maya Lin, which I co-produced. I am not the chair of the committee; it is headed by Walter Shenson. The fact that Maya Lin was awarded the Oscar shows that it was nominated on its merits. Corliss quoted film critic Roger Ebert [as seeing the nomination of Maya Lin as "logrolling"], but it should be noted that after screening Maya Lin, Ebert said it "deserved to be nominated...
...pages; $24) has been, variously, a U. S. fighter pilot, a billionaire, a bank robber, a convicted killer and an inmate in a Swiss sanatorium. But what he is most is a bit of a nut, which he demonstrates principally through his lifelong war against the evils of coffee.TIME critic John Skowsays "If there is a trouble with Helprin's writing, it is that readers may have come by now to expect little more than to be dazzled every few pages....They certainly will be in Antproof, a wonderfully strange and funny novel...
Comic strip artist Robert Crumb is the subject of "Crumb," a documentary thatTIME film critic Richard Corlisssays should have won the Academy Award for best documentary. The movie is a portrait of the "almost socially autistic" artist and his equally strange family. Crumb's fears, particularly of women, whom Crumb feels are so inaccessible "they won't even let me draw them," are chronicled here, as well as the frustration shown in comics with titles like "Words fail me (Pictures Aren't Much Better)." Of Crumb's work Corliss says "With care and wit, he draws his own demons...