Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creator, German author G?nter Grass, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, with his "Tin Drum," published in 1959, cited as "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century." "It?s an excellent award, 30 years overdue, but better late than never," says TIME literary critic Paul Gray. "?The Tin Drum? was a pioneering attempt at new fictional forms, a kind of postmodern attempt at super-realism to deal with the bizarre and ugly rise of Nazism. It was an attempt to explore history through a kind of surreal fiction...
JAMES PONIEWOZIK watches six hours of TV a day. In most fields that would qualify him as a slacking underachiever. But since he's our new television critic, it means he's on the job. Since joining the magazine in July, he has been busy screening pilots for the new fall season. "I like shows that aim high. They're more interesting if they are either outrageously bad or outrageously good, as opposed to competently reliable," he says. This week, in addition to reviewing the new show Once and Again, he writes about personal video recorders, which some analysts maintain...
...rock outsider. "I still feel like I don't fit in anywhere," he says. He insists that his role will always be cartographer of the murkier depths of the mind. "I'll always feel a passion for what's behind the door." And he remains a trenchant critic of the record business and the "sound-alike, look-alike meaningless music" that rules today's pop but saps its relevance. He has bigger targets too: America's gun culture and the finger pointing of Washington moralists who blamed musicians for the Columbine massacre, which he blasts as "scapegoating" and "blurring...
...mirrors along the walls; and over the great staircase Ezra Winter's gigantic The Fountain of Youth has been restored to such dazzling color that for a moment one can almost forget what a truly dreadful painting it is--"a wormy intestine floating in a muddy cloud," a contemporary critic described...
...grafitti is also a sign of anger, resentment, and a sort of liberation in defying society's laws. The creation of graffiti is as much a political statement as a physical act. The works cannot be considered independent of their function as social protest. In the eyes of the critic, the fact that grafitti is ultimately grounded in social reality underlines its importance as part of society's visual culture, while also underlining the irony of displaying grafitti to the gentrified, museum-going world...