Word: critics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paintings and sculpture, Degas captured these "rats" both graceful in mid-performance and in their less alluring offstage moments, as they turned dumpy and slump-shouldered tying their slipper laces or trudging heavily on their heels. ("After all, have you ever dated a dancer?" a modern critic of Degas' regularly asks his modern art classes. "I once did, and believe me, their legs are as thick as tree trunks and they eat, why they eat like horses...
...degree, Carter has heeded the warnings. His criticism of Uganda and other countries was meant to show, as he put it, that the U.S. was not pointing an admonitory finger at the Soviet Union alone. Last week Carter also delayed his scheduled meeting with Vladimir Bukovsky, a leading Russian dissident and critic of détente who was expelled from the Soviet Union last December. The President decided that seeing Bukovsky last week would be a bit much; after all, the handsome, dark-haired activist had just gone before a congressional commission to urge the U.S. to wage a cold...
...announcement, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin called on Acting U.S. Secretary of State Arthur Hartman in Washington and declared that the Kremlin "resolutely" rejected "attempts to interfere in its internal affairs." The Soviet leaders were furious that a U.S. President had made direct contact with their most eloquent critic; Sakharov himself further provoked their ire by boldly appearing at the U.S. embassy. Washington, in any case, offered no apologies. Questioned as to whether Carter's letter might worsen the prospects of an arms agreement with Moscow, Press Secretary Jody Powell replied: "Loving one another is not usually the reason...
...been audacious and aggressive; its colors are about as subtle as the parlor of a San Juan cathouse. But its ambition is unshakable, even obsessive: to render an account of exotic travel as refracted through a Puerto Rican background and an ironic, modernist education. As his best exegete, Art Critic Carter Ratcliff, points out, "It is as a practitioner of a dramatic, restless, 'tropical' version of the sublime that Ferrer can best be understood." The work is hot salsa too, theatrical and loose. In his way, Rafi-as his buddies call him -is the ham his elder brother...
...Soviets tolerate the dissidents to the extent that they do? "What alternative do the authorities have?" says one prominent critic, Anatoli Shchransky. "To take more direct measures against us would be to return to the days of Stalin and that they don't want. They are interested in Western opinion and in detente and in good economic relations, and most of the present leaders are the very men who survived Stalin. World opinion is what keeps us going, what keeps us alive." Mass terror was ended after Stalin's death, but no one doubts that if the dissident...