Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Watching the three of them together has been, in the words of one TV critic, "like looking at a broken marriage with the home wrecker right there on the premises." The other woman in this scenario: Deborah Norville, 31, a blond comer at NBC who was brought in to read the news on the top-rated Today show. TV gossips surmised that Norville was being groomed to replace Jane Pauley, 38, as Bryant Gumbel's co-host. Suddenly the Today show became high- tension drama: Is Bryant being nicer to Deborah than to Jane? Did you notice a chill...
...baseball fan of today has become a self-contained contradiction. He has evolved into an historian of the past and a critic of the present, clutching to the past tighter than Bo grips a bat. For the baseball fan, the past is perfect, and the present and future serve only as horrific reminders of decay...
Controversies about debates are nothing new to Walsh, the current council's most vocal critic of rent control. In response to a challenge two years ago, he offered instead to debate the entire Cambridge Civic Association slate--an offer which he said still stands...
Liquor advertising sells attitudes about drinking that exacerbate an already serious problem of alcoholism in the U.S., a media critic told approximately 100 students gathered in Boylston Hall last night...
...lanky Helena of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a role played sooner or later by most of the willowy Redgrave women; as Rosalind in As You Like It, Redgrave gave a performance many still consider definitive. In 1961, when she appeared in The Lady from the Sea, critic Kenneth Tynan said, "If there is better acting than this in London, I should like to hear of it." By 1967 she was up for an Oscar as Best Actress for Morgan!, competing with her sister, who was nominated for Georgy Girl. (They lost to Elizabeth Taylor for Who's Afraid...