Word: rater
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There has long been a tendency to repeat, without checking it against the pictures, Gauguin's irritable verdict that Pissarro was a good second-rater, "always wanting to be on top of the latest trend ... he's lost any kind of personality, and his work lacks unity." So although there has been no lack of Degas shows, Monet retrospectives, homages to Cézanne and museum tributes to Bazille or Caillebotte, Pissarro has remained less known-an irony, since, with his peculiar steadfastness and probity, he was the linchpin of the impressionist group...
...architectural dictum "Less is more" can be applied to plays as well as buildings. A simple structure can be grander than an ornate one, and a few words from a great playwright can say more than volumes from a second-rater. No one has matched principle and practice as closely as Samuel Beckett. Some of his plays, indeed, are so spare that they can scarcely be said to exist: one new work is only 35 seconds long and dispenses with actors altogether, making use only of lights, sets and sounds...
Within a month or two, A.C. Nielsen, the Grim Rater, will probably have cast down at least a few of these new comedies. But the networks have already groomed such summer-tested replacements as Sonny and Cher and British Comic Marty Feldman. Also waiting in the wings at CBS is splenetic and iconoclastic Don Rickles, who in the pilot for his next TV incarnation is cast as an advertising executive presumably with executioner power over TV shows. Given the quality of the new-season series to date, Rickles will not want for real-life material on which to exercise...
Built-in Danger. To be sure, a method of predicting such ailments may well have a built-in danger: a self-rater using the scale could become depressed at-the very prospect of depression. But Holmes is confident. Physical and emotional illness can be prevented, he says, by counseling susceptible people not to make too many life changes in too short a time...
Even Yale, which ended up seventh in the poll. collected one first place vote from some kind-hearted rater. Holy Cross, the Crimson opponent Saturday, was picked tenth with 18 votes...