Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...books, exclaimed one French critic, "possess all the passionate excess of Rabelais' Gargantua, the verbal virtuosity of a Joyce, the demonic cruelty of Celine's best work." Mon dieu, who is this born-again Shakespeare? Charles Bukowski. You know, the 64-year-old Los Angeles-based laureate of American lowlife whose Henry Miller-ish paeans to booze and broads (Love Is a Dog for Hell, Notes of a Dirty Old Man) typically sell only around 5,000 copies in the U.S. In France, more than 100,000 copies of the Boho's short and tall stories have left the shelves...
...first was born Kenneth Millar in 1915 and died three years ago of Alzheimer's disease. The second is 69 and lives in Florida, as does his popular P.I. Travis McGee, the "tinhorn knight on a stumbling Rosinante from Rent-A-Steed." The third is a former Boston Globe critic and the inventor of the flippant Fletch, whose snooping is sanctioned by a press card rather than a badge...
...spectacular: Billie Holiday songs, Krazy Kat, Preston Sturges movies, Ernie Kovacs, the Four Tops, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Dylan, E.T., even blue jeans, Whoppers and soda pop. But ask again, on a dull, gray, Spenglerian day, and the view is altogether different. Alarming, appalling, totally awesome. The critic Dwight Macdonald called pop culture a spreading ooze back in the 1950s, when Sylvester Stallone was still just a boy. Today America's righteous pop thug is huge, ubiquitous, swaggering from one medium into the next and the next: he is a movie warrior, he is a TV cartoon character...
...wonder. The nation and the proto-pop media were invented more or less simultaneously only two centuries ago. Newspapers and novels made sense. "Those who cry out now that the work of a Mickey Spillane or The Adventures of Superman travesty the novel," Critic Leslie Fiedler noted in 1955, "forget that the novel was long accused of travestying literature." Pamela and Tom Jones were, in a sense, the Magnum, P.I. and The Young and the Restless of their day. By 18th century standards, the new American flag must have seemed gaudy and flamboyant -- patriotic pop; and the national anthem composed...
...minutes after the film, and then Cavell opened the floor up for questions. The other participants were Robert Gardner '48, directer of the Carpenter Center; Alfred F. Guzzetti, chairman of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department; Vlada K. Petric, curator of the Harvard Film Archive; screenwriter and film critic William D. Rothman; and Charles Warren '69, lecturer on history and literature...