Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well noted, these "are not merely rhetorical questions." Nor are they, ultimately, un-constructive starting points for Johnson. A World of Difference, a collection of essays gathered from Johnson's work in literary theory during the past decade, relentlessly questions the role of literary interpretation, academic establishments and the critic in the "real world." Always, the essays remain aware of how contradictions in language remain one step ahead of our assumptions about these categories: "Suddenly it became clear to me that `the real world' was constantly being put in quotation marks, always being defined as where...
...Leaf, whose fine individual qualities are overlooked by the great, noisy media bash of the age. Beatty is, of course, Beatty: a man in whose career- drama the actual movies he stars in are merely incidents. In a daringly speculative new book, Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes (Doubleday; $17.95), Critic David Thomson puts it this way: Beatty's ambition now is "to see if he can be only a star -- not a star kept alight by regular work and appearance, but a star who exists according to the self-perpetuating mechanics of stardom." In this grand scheme, his notoriety...
...Frankie Valli -- that is highly unusual, if not unique, in the world of business. Gaudio, 46, is a composer, pianist, arranger and producer who has worked on records with Sinatra, Ross, Diamond, Michael Jackson and Barry Manilow. Valli, 53, is the veteran pop singer whose high-pitched voice (a critic once likened it to an air-raid siren) still packs in audiences at basketball arenas, concert halls, nightclubs and casinos. Both men were original members of the Four Seasons, the famed rock group that next month will launch its 25th anniversary concert tour. The dozens of Four Seasons hits, including...
...article that he and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were writing for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. In it they propose what Nixon calls a "good negotiating position" for turning the zero option from a blunder into a "major step for peace." Kissinger had earlier been a scathing critic of the zero option; now that he has joined his old boss in what amounts to a qualified endorsement of the plan, the Administration may face less domestic opposition to the summit...
...that keeps it moving ("I was an intellectual by the time I reached Annie Wright ((Seminary)). And no one else was"). Newcomers are likely to be baffled. The author keeps dropping Edmund Wilson's name and opinions without volunteering until the end the information that the famous critic was to be her second husband. Of the photographs that accompany the text, three include McCarthy's younger brother Kevin, a well-known actor, who is never mentioned by name in his sister's narrative. Those who are not already in the know about the author's biography receive little encouragement...