Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trying to anticipate any theater season," said a critic, "is like wiping off the lipstick before you've kissed the girl." Last week the girl was getting ready to be kissed. Trying out on the road before the hoped-for move to Broadway, new shows were primping frantically amid the desperate attentions of play doctors, angels, producers and producers' wives...
Goldilocks, a musical visit to the Cro-Magnon days of moviemaking, was singing just a bit off key in Philadelphia, and its authors, Critic Walter Kerr and his wife Jean (Please Don't Eat the Daisies), were working overtime to tune it up. At the Grand, the musical version of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel that is scheduled to take Paul Muni back to his beginnings as a vaudeville hoofer, is laid up in California while its producers try to produce a new book. Other shows were more nearly ready to kiss the road goodbye...
...naive. He hadn't translated literature into an ontological entity, and terms like "rendition" seemed little more than post facto price tags on genius. Morris, an aristocrat beneath the talcum powder, objected to the idea of fiction which has been the kept woman of the bourgeoise, the Critics. And James was really a critic writing handbooks...
Sporting Life is the arbitrator, critic, memory and chief tipster of British racing and other gambling sports. Sporting Life reporters at every track decide the starting odds by which bets are settled all over Great Britain, impartially provide all trainers with tips on the opposition. They answer some 11,000 queries a year on everything from saddle sizes to 19th century Derby results. Circulating 60,000 copies a day (at 4½? a copy), Sporting Life is as essential as the Times to the "well-britched people" who control or patronize British racing; eight copies go to Buckingham Palace...
Died. Georges Lecompte, 91, august, white-bearded permanent secretary of the august 40-member French Academy, playwright (La Meule, Mirages), novelist (L'Espoir, Servitude Amoureuse), historian (Espagne), art critic (L'Art Impressioniste); in Paris...