Rooney's contribution in last season's FA Cup final also seems to have been airbrushed out of history by his more dedicated critics, many of them supporters of his own club.
Perhaps the "Golden Age of Criticism" was when great artists themselves, George Bernard Shaw and Richard Wagner, etc., put out a body of work, not only in their chosen fields as playwright and composer, but as dedicated critics, producing works that stand up on their own.
"You can't fool the pros," said Bianchi, now a Phoenix Suns scout, N.B.A. lifer and dedicated Pitino critic who left New York believing Pitino sabotaged his first and only chance to run his own team.
And it was a deadening influence". The lesser-known Alpert "was widely seen as a serious, knowledgeable, dedicated film critic.
William Winter, a New York theater critic, dedicated the library to his 13-year-old son, Arthur, who had died in a sledding accident in 1886.
Scholem, the devoted Zionist and master historian of Jewish mysticism, and Benjamin, the Marxist cultural critic, dedicated much of their thought and correspondence to Kafka, the explorer in fiction of radical alienation.
Neither autobiography nor confession nor an essay on method, this uncanny book, dedicated "To the Critics," reviews, or rather revises, Mr. Woodward's career.
So we were delighted to learn that this is a week dedicated to kid critics: it's Children's Book Week, a celebration sponsored by the Children's Book Council, the national trade organization of children's-book publishers.
In the late 50's and early 60's, through the efforts of a dedicated cadre of critics, editors, repertory programmers and besotted cinephiles (or film buffs, if you prefer), a lively and serious film culture began to emerge in the larger American cities, filtering out onto college campuses and suburban film clubs.
The climax of the theater season can leave a critic — and dedicated theatergoers — feeling a little bit dazed and sluggish.
Her "Trio A: Geriatric With Talking", which she dedicated to the great critic Jill Johnston, who died on Sept. 18, wittily played up her physical limitations as she danced while her words proved that her mind remains as agile as ever.
