So the childless 40-something critic assigned to watch "Bunnytown," the Disney Channel's new morning show, was probably unnecessarily confused when the bubble-gum-colored singing puppet rabbits suddenly disappeared, replaced by two pratfalling, bowler-hatted humans straight out of a "Monty Python" sketch.
After many pages of family background, only partly true, and numerous false starts in telling the central story, Yedidyah Wasserman, a New York drama critic assigned to cover a murder trial, finally gets around to describing the case — in which a young German is accused of killing his uncle (who is later revealed to be his Nazi grandfather).
Walter Kerr, the daily critic, was assigned to write weekly critical essays in the Sunday arts section, and Mr. Barnes was offered the vacant slot, which he initially refused.
Three New Museum curators — Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni and Laura Hoptman — made the final cut of the 50 artists, with the critic Brian Sholis assigned to create a resource center to supplement the show.
This presented a challenge to Raymond Sokolov, then a young book critic for Newsweek, when he was assigned to review a biography of Joseph Pujol, a French music-hall performer of the eighteen-nineties.
(Tunnell's critics have pointed out that Gibbs was assigned to Tunnell's security detachment before joining the Third Platoon).
Art critics mainly see the shows they are assigned to cover by their editors, and have limited interest in looking at much else.
It might be one that was assigned to you by your critics or your past failures.
It gives the TSA's critics every reason to believe the agency assigned to protect America's transportation systems isn't up to the job.
Executives who are assigned to look for and react to online critics are aware that they, too, are being watched.
