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...saddened to report that Martha Duffy, one of the most talented and beloved members of our professional family, died last week at 61. She had worked at TIME for 37 years, half the life of the magazine, as a researcher, writer, critic and one of our first women senior editors...
...arts editor of TIME magazine from 1974 to 1989 and subsequently as a senior writer and critic, she was always gentle and generous but never one to mince words when she felt a piece of writing fell short of her standards. Her praise for sharp thinking was warm and inspiring, and her critiques of fuzzy stories were softened by wry humor and kindness. When movie critic Richard Corliss, new to the magazine in 1980, submitted the beginning draft of his first cover story to Martha, she responded, "The first three paragraphs are O.K. The fourth one had better sing...
...Broadway musical. A sitting-duck target for some pretty unmerciful snubbing (or just plain ignoring) by the magistral proponents of intellectualism and high art. And yet, for the critic who can't resist a good show or the damnably hummable tunes of a Rodgers or a Lloyd Webber, a really professionally staged musical is often a source of lively, if somewhat guilty, entertainment. So it is with the lavish production of the Kern-Hammerstein classic "Showboat" currently playing at the Wang Center through August...
...cool. A restaurant critic who nibbles at life as if it were a dubious meal, Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) has, shall we say, neglected her emotional growth...
Your art teachers think you a budding painter, though you shrug that off. That's O.K. But if you should become an artist, ignore the critics. Some precious few critics have an artist in them, but most are a desperate, shriveled lot who have found a way to touch art without making it. The half-nuts architect Roark in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is confronted by the critic who tried to destroy him. "Why don't you tell me what you think of me," says the critic. To which Roark responds, "I don't think...