A few days after the protest, and it was Cannes business as usual as each day critics staked their claims, declaring this a masterpiece, that a fiasco and much of it mezzo mezzo.
However, so far in this administration, underestimating the president's desire to drive stakes into his critics' hearts ― and Republican senators' willingness to remain largely supine while he does ― has not made for good betting.
It is traditionally made by critics who stake out a certain place on the musical evolution timeline and wonder why the rest of the world is not standing still with them.
The critics were critical -- but spoke of larger principles at stake.
The stakes are beyond monumental, critics point out, but the delegates in Durban will be addressing relatively small and, to many people, arcane, questions of process and finance.
CANNES, France — There may not have been consensus by Day 4 of the Cannes Film Festival — no movie has yet been universally loved, loathed or violently debated — but the critics have staked out their positions and fired up their thumbs.
He pulled hard for his head in the early stages of York's Dante Stakes, a race which critics have panned for its inconsistent pace fractions, and those looking to get him beaten will have taken further encouragement when the colt's participation appeared in doubt this week because of a swollen ankle.
His adherents and critics have staked many a claim: that he was the first to compile a Sioux dictionary; that he was the first Harvard man in the Far West; that his glowing letters about California brought the first wagon train of settlers here long before the Gold Rush; and that he was, if only for a year, the first Yankee-trained physician in Los Angeles.
@guardianmusic Rose Garden VIP twitter.com/indiegodess/st… — Wendy Fonarow (@indiegodess) April 14, 2013 Not wanting to be outdone in the debauchery stakes, your Guardian critic heads straight over to the onsite rose garden to look at some nice flowers and have a sit down.
"Lestat," the new musical inspired by Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles" books, which opened big in San Francisco last month despite a stake to the heart by critics, has pushed its Broadway opening back by 12 days.
