Sentences with phrase «make early critics»

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Citron, Kickstart readers will remember, is the firm that waged a long battle against Herbalife (which it called a «ponzi scheme») and made a fortune betting against Valeant Pharmaceuticals, of whose management and accounting practices it was an early (and very loud) critic.

Just as early blogging platforms made everyone a critic, YouTube (followed by Instagram and Snapchat) turned anyone with a smartphone into a video publisher.

«58 Literary critic Walter Ong makes a similar complaint: «It is no accident that the most strenuous corporate technological effort which man has ever made coincides in fact with the activity which earlier man often jokingly imagined to be the most playful... shooting the moon.

If for example the Christian Gospels are considered by themselves without any background of definite belief, or any authoritative norm of interpretation, all sorts of meanings can be put upon the bare words, the more so if the critic is ready and willing to make the early disciples of Christ neurotics, hysterics, or downright liars as the occasion may demand.

They silenced the critics early on, building a quick lead that would eventually blossom to 18 in the second half before the Crimson made a late run to keep the final mark at 79 - 70 respectable.

Iowa Congressman Steve King, a critic of the new school food regulations, made news earlier this week by introducing a bill to roll back the regulations» new calorie limits.

Much of the modern meaning's early use was made by communist and socialist societal critics.

When the mayor pitched the idea to develop the sprawling rail yard during his second State of the City address in early 2015, critics said it would be too costly to make affordable housing work.

January 1 was the earliest the second - term governor could have called the election day to fill all 11 vacancies, and a growing number of critics are pressuring Cuomo to make the pronouncement as soon as possible.

Earlier Braa Prex - doe a very bold and former staunch supporter of NPP and the fiercest critic of President Mahama from Bole wrote on his Facebook timeline that, it took him a lot of time to meditate, ponder over the issues on the ground before making his final judgment, and hence his decision endorse President Mahama.

This is four years earlier than planned for women, prompting critics to accuse the chancellor of making them unfairly shoulder the bulk of the # 5bn - a-year savings the move will achieve.

Critics charged that the FDA's drug - safety analyst had made a connection between antidepressants and teenagers» suicidal behavior as early as 2002, but agency higher - ups had rejected his findings and ordered an outside panel to reanalyze his data.

The current bill also revises earlier provisions that critics worried would have made it tougher for EPA to regulate products (or «articles») that contain a known toxic chemical, as well as murky language that might have inadvertently required EPA to keep considering costs in chemical assessments and blocked certain state air and water pollution laws.

The sixth season premiere brings back the true form of the Shonda Rhimes» created show and all the plot twists that made the show so great and popular among audiences and critics alike in its early days.

After I saw it at the Toronto film festival last September — where Rudolph and Willis said they were proud of having made it even if nobody saw it — it received nominal runs in New York and Los Angeles, cities where viewers and critics are regarded by distributors as being more demographically significant than those in Chicago, and then early this year it came out on video.

The film made its world premiere earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews from critics, and features a cast that includes John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey, Rory Culkin, Michelle Forbes, and Jim -LSB-...]

After making his mark in the early thirties with two very different films, the anarchic send - up of the bourgeoisie Boudu Saved from Drowning and the popular - front Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths, Renoir closed out the decade with two critical humanistic studies of French society that routinely turn up on lists of the greatest films ever made: Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game (the former was celebrated in its time, but the latter was trashed by critics and audiences — until history provided vindication).

There are many moments in «The 5th Wave» that made me and my fellow critics giggle from the back row of the theater, but the one that made us cackle hysterically occurred when Cassie stumbled upon Evan enjoying an early - morning bath in the river.

With a stellar cast that makes use of the most promising young actors, Cafe Society was received well by critics when it opened the 69th Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.

With its dark humor and complicated characters and themes — a mother out to avenge her daughter's rape and murder, a suggestion of police brutality against black residents — «Three Billboards» made an early splash with critics and audiences at the Venice Film Festival in September and then at the Toronto International Film Festival in October, where it won the audience award and was hailed by some as one of the year's best.

It makes sense to me, because earlier in your career there were a lot of critics comparing you work to the Dardenne brothers, Italian neo-realism, but now it's maybe closer to a subjective realism, like Fellini.

The performance feels like more of a departure than it really is because Sandler often positions himself as an outsider in his movies (especially the early ones)-- and offscreen, too, when he avoids sit - down interviews, makes low - key jabs at mean critics, and surrounds himself with his ever - growing collection of backslapping buddies.

Below, we've got a clip from the film that makes that above paragraph a bit more clear, as well as some early buzz from noted film critics.

Always one of the early announcers, they will be sharing that date with the Critics Choice Movie Awards nominations and just after the National Board of Review (NBR) makes their choices on November 29th.

This Week: Because not all the critics out there in Criticland were able to check out an early screening of Prometheus, Kevin makes a desperate move and has Nick Herum from MoviesHateYouToo.com back on the show.

After nearly all states adopted the Common Core in an early rush, proponents exhibited little interest in making the case for its merits, responding to critics, or explaining what was in store.

A highly regarded English professor and literary critic early in his career, he is the author of several acclaimed books on education issues, including Cultural Literacy (Vintage, 1988), The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them (Anchor 1999), The Knowledge Deficit (Houghton Mifflin Harourt 2006), and The Making of Americans (Yale University Press 2010).

Although the public presentation of charter school research today is nearly as contentious as it was when the AFT report made waves in 2004, beneath the radar screen is a growing convergence on a set of findings that fit neither the rosy predictions of the early advocates nor the dire fears of the early critics:

Why Spielberg was deemed the ideal critic for assessing the progress of video games is a mystery, since he infamously gave his approval to the E.T. video game produced for the Atari 2600 in the early 80s, which is now widely regarded as one of the worst games ever made.

In his review, New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl pointed to the artist's early doubts about Abstract Expressionism, quoting him in Working Space: «I sensed a hesitancy, a doubt of some vague dimension which made their work touching, but to me too vulnerable.»

Critics regarded the all - black paintings and all - red paintings he made in the early 1950s as spoofs of de Kooning and Pollock.

For the first time, these early examples are shown alongside Donaldson's later, lesser known works from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s demonstrate the artist's lifelong commitment of using the politics of representation to make, as he often said, «art for the people, not for critics.»

Critics like these made earlier notions of the sublime or Northern Romanticism all but synonyms for «proto - abstract.»

It refers to groups of artists and writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, specifically, those making and distributing art in a different way to their contemporaries; artists who self - consciously created «isms», were promoted by themselves or critics in little magazines and showed and sold their work in private galleries or artist - led exhibitions.

Born into a wealthy St Ives family who had made money from tin mining, he received lessons from the traditional marine painter Borlase Smart, linking him to an earlier phase of St Ives art, before he threw in his lot with Hepworth and Nicholson, who gave him lessons in Cubism in Little Parc Owles, a house belonging to the critic Adrian Stokes that Lanyon himself later bought.

The show opens with striking photographic images that document early performances in which Mendieta enacted dramatic bodily transformations — applying thick make - up, donning wigs, covering her face with a torn stocking — whose similarity to later works by Cindy Sherman has been noted by more than one critic.

In 1961, the noted critic Thomas Hess extolled Pace's place in this milieu, writing in the introduction to a show of his work: «Pace is a brilliant member of the second generation of New York School painters [who] burst on the scene in the early 1950s, fully made, as if from the forehead of the Statue of Liberty.»

Since those early days, we've evolved in our roles; I've made the gradual transformation from critic to coach.

Critic Clement Greenberg, among others, was unconvinced, insisting that Turner never truly broke with the conventions of late 18th and early 19th century picture making.

At the Wexner, excerpts of Tuymans's early films were shown on a video monitor and sequestered in a side gallery (a situation that made the films, as described by critic Jordan Kantor, «an excursus... in the artist's career»), while here this collection of cinematic fragments is screened only twice a day in the visitor education center (during my first visit, I totally missed this component, having been told by several museum guards that there was no video).

Making the top twelve list of top art world events taking place in early February, the exhibition, «deftly organized by art critic and curator Gregory Volk,» is higlighted as an opportunity to view the artist's lesser - known photography - based works, including «her recent still lifes, which poetically combine distinctive objects and images culled from her vast archive.»

In 1961, the critic, Thomas B. Hess, called Pace a «brilliant member of the second generation of New York School painters that burst on the scene, in the early 1950s, fully made, as if from the forehead of the Statue of Liberty.»

In the early 2000s, the Boston University graduate made a precocious impact on critics and curators with a technical skill lending his surreal figurative paintings...

In the early»60s, Stella made his name overnight with striated black, silver and copper paintings that methodically rejected everything artists and critics had prized in»50s abstract expressionism, including the very conven tion of the pictorial rectangle.

Though she cites remarks to this effect made decades earlier by one of Frankenthaler's great champions, the critic E. C. Goossen, her essay was derided by many of the artist's defenders.

Later works include exuberantly satirical works of the 1960s, many featuring the vaguely autobiographical figure described by critic and artist Anne Doran as a «nattily dressed and deeply ridiculous Everyman in mad pursuit of liberty, poetry, and sex»; the pornography - inspired «X-Rated Paintings» of the early 1970s; the «Noun» paintings of the same period (each depicting a single everyday object against a bright, patterned background); the schematic, figurative canvases made in homage to Copley's Surrealist idol Francis Picabia; and the story cycles and morality tales from the 1980s and 90s, including a painting from the installation project The Tomb of the Unknown Whore.

A different bid to make Ab Ex cohere probably began with the artist and critic Robert Motherwell, who early on helped coin the term «The New York School».

Under the influences of early Renaissance painting, Japanese printmaking and, perhaps obliquely, Pop Art, he made flattened, precisely contoured portraits of the architect Frederick Kiesler, the art critic Katherine Kuh and the art collector Roy Neuberger.

I also wondered if Saul, who has previously made of fun of critics (Clement Greenberg) and artists (Frank Stella) before, isn't also doing so in «Birth of Venus» (2015), which is his riff on Cabanel, but also perhaps a sly spoof of Bill Jensen's Transgressions paintings in which he simplified and abstracted an exhaustive scene from Michelangelo's «The Last Judgment» (Sistine Chapel, 1536 — 41), shown in the front room of his last show at Cheim and Read earlier this year.

Since then, art historians, artists, and critics have invoked this set of instructions on countless occasions to describe the revolutionary approaches to art making that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.