"We claim him as our own," Dr. Swander declares, to applause, "and I personally acclaim him as the most Shakespearean writer in English drama since Webster".
"It was embarrassing: I was acclaimed as the new, young voice of Belfast, even though I'd never been there".
Many years ago, I remember acclaimed Indian director, Ismail Merchant, generating controversy because he cast Tina Turner to play the part of the Goddess Shakti, in a movie.
What Betzer and Levine have done is substantial, and substantially different from the familiar run of low-budget genre films that come out, sometimes to acclaim (I'm thinking, for instance, of "Blue Ruin" and the forthcoming teen horror film "It Follows"), films that have their merits but that fit into genre without reflecting on or transforming it.
But I've also been on the international scene, where I've achieved acclaim — I represent the whole zodiac of the Liberian contradictions, and I know the Liberian potential.
But I've also been on the international scene, where I've achieved acclaim—I represent the whole zodiac of the Liberian contradictions, and I know the Liberian potential.
Liberals flock to see them, shower him with cash and remain unsure whether to denounce or acclaim him: 'I was a cutting observer of contemporary reality,' Daniel1 says of himself at one point, which sounds suspiciously like a publisher's blurb for Atomised, and this with lines like: 'Do you know what they call the fat stuff around the vagina?
I like being "acclaimed".
The critically acclaimed I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) had Jamie XX bringing Popcaan and Young Thug together with a bouncy beat and a 1970s soul sample from the Persuasions.
Most recently, he wrote and directed his first short film, the critically acclaimed I Am Here, and has worked with studio artists such as John Lennon's drummer Jim Keltner, Wayne Kramer (MC5) and Tommy Morgan (the Beach Boys, Elvis).
