His e-mail messages are legendary across Washington, and usually appear right after a critique hits the Web.
Oscar night in Hollywood Raymond Chandler | Atlantic | 1 March 1948 Chandler's critique hits the target today as surely as it did when he wrote it 66 years ago.
The critique hits at a pressure point in mainstream climate change messaging.
Though much of his work ("Time Stands Still," "Collected Stories") centers on artists, the playwright, now 60, was somewhat beyond Wallace's target audience when the author's sharp cultural critiques hit the Gen-X solar plexus in the 1990s.
Catching up with the film over the weekend, reviewers Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert on their TV show acknowledged that more than 6 million people had already seen it by the time their "two thumbs up" critiques hit the air.
Other stars who have seen their stock fall in the past year are Adrian Peterson and Robin Thicke; the latter never recovered from the critique that his hit single "Blurred Lines" promotes rape culture, while the former was accused of child abuse.
"That if you have an opinion about something in music which isn't 100-percent good, you're a hater, even if you have perfectly reasonable grounds for that critique". Lorde, whose hit song "Royals" has topped the Billboard Hot 100 for three straight weeks, told MTV that she was right to express her opinion on Gomez.
Now, he's old enough to critique his dad's hit Broadway show.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/10/61/prepub We gratefully acknowledge RocketScience for developing the software for the toolkit, Jo Burns and Trudi James for their assistance with the original project, the advisory group for their thoughtful critique of the e-HIT, and all the interviewees.
But the liberal critique that I thought did hit home came from the Washington Post's Ezra Klein, who noted the peculiarity of watching first Christie and then Ryan talk up the necessity of defying polls and telling unpleasant truths and not tacking your sails at a convention dedicated to nominating a politician known for his flip-flops, convenient evolutions and repeated reinventions.
