Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MARY MCCARTHY MET HANNAH Arendt at a Manhattan bar in 1944. Wartime New York was jumping, especially for jazz musicians, black marketeers and left-wing intellectuals. McCarthy, then a 32-year-old short-story writer, reviewer and wife of critic Edmund Wilson, was making the most of it. She had come to the red-hot center by way of Seattle and Vassar, class of '33. Arendt, a German Jew, had been an outstanding student at Marburg University, where she was the lover of her mentor, the philosopher Martin Heidegger. She arrived in the U.S. in 1941, escaping probable death...
...friends are mourning the death of Floyd Barton, a blues guitarist and singer whose career was about to take off when he died. The rest of the play, about Barton's rocky life, is "enormously promising and filled with colorful sketches of dialogue and very appealing characters" says TIME critic Bill Tynan. As the end of the play approaches, however, both the "plotting and the ideas get muddy, so it isn't as moving as it should be" Tynan says. Still, it's a problem that Wilson, a prodigious rewriter, will probably fix as the production makes its rounds...
...aficionados of pop who think you couldn't be into classical music,TIME Music critic Chris Farleyurges you to see this movie -- about the life of Ludwig van Beethoven -- and buy the soundtrack. "The movie is like an MTV video for classical music," says Farley. "It may not be all that enjoyable for someone who, say, is a little bit stuffy and wrote a doctoral thesis on Beethoven, but if you have an open mind, you'll find the music in this movie enchanting...
...this critic has mentioned before that perhaps Harvard should aim more toward the postseason than another ECAC regular-season title. How giddy would Tomassoni be entitled to feel if pre-Christmas criticism led to March madness and April jubilation...
...dead-end life in sleepy Austin, Texas, the film was embraced by Generation Xers who felt it explained why they were so determinedly listless. "Before Sunrise" -- his newest effort -- may serve a similar purpose for the same group in their attempts to express their romantic feelings, says TIME critic Richard Corliss. Still, the movie, which basically follows an extended conversation between a guy and a girl who meet on a train, falls flat, Corliss feels. "This two-character talkfest, a kind of Eric Rohmer meets Harry meets Sally, wins points for daring to be a love story," says Corliss...