Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such brilliant success, according to popular wisdom, must have left dark and dreadful shadows. Biographer Vicki Goldberg, an art and photography critic, has indeed dug behind the Bourke-White legend to find some details that the daring camera girl chose not to develop in her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963). But these snippets hardly amount to the negative image of a triumphant life. Bourke-White did not outdistance her wildest dreams; she plotted her course to the top, assessed the costs along the way and willingly paid them...
...jubilant finale, the troupe is now performing an uproarious double bill about bad theater and worse reviewers: Tom Stoppard's staging of his own The Real Inspector Hound, followed by Sheridan's dizzying spoof of epic tragedy, The Critic, last seen on Broadway 40 years ago in a production that featured Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson in roles that McKellen and Petherbridge play. Hound is a schoolboy-clever send-up of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, with all its clunking contrivances, coupled with the petulant fantasies of a second-string critic (Petherbridge) about an uprising by all the world...
Pretty in pictures, she is prettier in person. Critic Pauline Kael's phrase, "charismatic normality," has Molly nailed. The charisma sets her apart as the one young movie actress who can set teens queueing at the box office--though typically, in today's fragmented pop culture, she remains virtually unknown to anyone over 30--and whose punk-flapper fashion sense is imitated by thousands of "Ringlets," her very own girl groupies. They pay tribute by dyeing their hair orange (as she does, from her natural dark reddish brown), smearing lipstick from nose to chin and dressing in Molly's unique...
There is art in The Garden of Eden; there is also evidence of many artifacts. Hemingway began the book after World War II. In 1947 he wrote the critic Maxwell Geismar, "Getting very big but I cut the hell out of it periodically." Just how big became the concern of Scribners Editor Tom Jenks, 35, who got the job of salvaging a 247-page novel out of 1,500 pages of manuscript. "Editing Hemingway was like wrestling with a god," says the amiable Virginian. What Jenks does not say is that the rules of the game require that...
Some of the most politically active Baby Boomers are true-believer conservatives. "When I went to college, all my professors were insipid liberals," says John Buckley, 29, who went from being a rock critic for the Soho News in Manhattan to conservative Congressman Jack Kemp's press secretary. "The only way to inject any energy was to rebel from the right." Says Peggy Noonan, 35, who voted for George McGovern in 1972 but now writes speeches for President Reagan: "We are idealists without illusions." Of course, many more Baby Boomers--indeed, the large and silent majority--show little...