Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Books: Film critic Pauline Kael says farewell in For Keeps...
When Quentin Tarantino was 15, he saw something on TV that changed his life: Pauline Kael. The New Yorker movie critic was being grilled by Tomorrow host Tom Snyder on her rave review of Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and she refused to back down. "I thought, Who is this wild old woman?" the writer-director of Pulp Fiction recalls, "and soon I was going to the library to find her books. She was as influential as any director was in helping me develop my aesthetic. I never went to film school, but she was the professor...
President Boris Yeltsin, calling the currency crash "a threat to our national security," fired acting Finance Minister Sergei Dubinin, a critic of easing monetary policy, and asked parliament to dismiss central bank chairman Victor Gerashenko -- who resigned, but only after a personal meeting with Yeltsin. Considered by many an obstacle to reform, Gerashenko had balked at spending scarce hard-currency reserves to prop up the ruble as it went into free fall...
...column last spring. Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell '58 called the ongoing decapitation of the Memorial Hall tower "an architectural Bobbitt case...
Still, one leaves this rich meal feeling curiously empty. The reason may be that Rorem has been voluble about every facet of his life except whom and what he really cares about. Explaining why he felt his protege was "not a dependable critic," Virgil Thomson once said of Rorem, "His egocentricity gets in the way. It prevents his seriously liking or hating anything." Rorem quotes this remark, along with others even less flattering about himself. It's a gutsy thing to do, but it only points to a terrible void...