The critic Elizabeth Anne Hull, for her part, has praised Heinlein for his interest in exploring fundamental life questions especially questions about “ political power – our responsibilities to one another ” and about “ personal freedom, particularly sexual freedom .”

* Anne Midgette ( music critic )

Film critic Roger Ebert, who gave the original Nikita three and a half stars out of four, gave Return three stars, saying: " Point of No Return is actually a fairly effective and faithful adaptation and Bridget Fonda manages the wild identity swings of her role with intensity and conviction, although not the same almost poetic sadness that Anne Parillaud brought to the original movie.

On May 3, 1905, Anne Sullivan married a Harvard University instructor and literary critic, John Albert Macy ( 1877 – 1932 ), who had helped Keller with her publications.

Leno appeared at Drury Lane as Sister Anne in Bluebeard, a character described by Wood as " a sprightly, somewhat below middle aged person who was of a coming on disposition and who had not yet abandoned hope " The Times drama critic noted: " It is a quite peculiar and original Sister Anne, who dances breakdowns and sings strange ballads to a still stranger harp and plays ping-pong with a frying-pan and potatoes and burlesques Sherlock Holmes and wears the oddest of garments and dresses her hair like Miss Morleena Kenwigs, and speaks in a piping voice – in short it is none other than Dan Leno whom we all know ".

Lewis, essayist Edward Hoagland, literary critic Camille Paglia, rhetorician Kenneth Burke, fomer United Artists ' senior vice-president Steven Bach, novelists Bernard Malamud and John Gardner, trumpeter / composer Bill Dixon, composers Allen Shawn, Henry Brant, and Vivian Fine, painters Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski, politicians Mansour Farhang and Mac Maharaj, poets Léonie Adams and Howard Nemerov, sculptor Anthony Caro, dancer / choreographer Martha Graham, drummer Milford Graves, author William " Bill " Butler ( author of The Butterfly Revolution ), economist Karl Polanyi and a number of Pulitzer Prize-winning poets including W. H. Auden, Stanley Kunitz, Mary Oliver, Theodore Roethke and Anne Waldman.

From 1637 to 1638, during the Antinomian Controversy, he sat with the other colonial ministers during both the civil and church trials of Anne Hutchinson, and was a very vocal critic of hers during the latter.

Polly Toynbee was born on the Isle of Wight, the second daughter of the literary critic Philip Toynbee ( by his first wife Anne ), granddaughter of the historian Arnold J. Toynbee, and great-great niece of philanthropist and economic historian Arnold Toynbee, after whom Toynbee Hall in the East End of London is named.

Claudia Anne I. Winkleman ( born 15 January 1972, Westminster, London ) is an English television presenter, film critic, radio personality and journalist.

Forty years later, when the critic Clement Shorter prepared to write Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle, he found at Banagher among other relics, two diaries of Emily and Anne, in a tin box, and some of Charlotte's minute childhood writings wrapped in newspaper at the bottom of a drawer.

TV critic Steve Rogers likened Gray's hosting style to the demeanor of a " class clown ", in contrast to the " severe schoolmarm " attitude of original Weakest Link host Anne Robinson.

In Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels ( 1985 ), editor and critic David Pringle named Bradley and Anne McCaffrey two " leading practitioners nowadays " for the planetary romance type of science fiction.

When the film was released in its day, Bosley Crowther, the film critic for The New York Times, appreciated the adaptation of Chandler's novel and lauded the acting, writing, " Practically all of the supporting roles are exceptionally well played, particularly by Mike Mazurki, the former wrestler, as the brutish Moose Malloy ; Otto Kruger as Jules Amthor, quack-psychologist and insidious blackmailer ; Anne Shirley as an innocent among the wolf pack, and Don Douglas as the police lieutenant.

As literary critic Anne Witchard notes, most of what we know about Burke ’ s life is based on works that “ purport to be autobiographical yet contain far more invention than truth .” For instance, although he grew up in the suburbs, Thomas Burke claims in his autobiographical novel The Wind and the Rain: A Book of Confessions ( 1924 ) to have been born and raised in the East End, a lower-working class area of London.

The village church, St Mary's, was the venue for the wedding of her son, the journalist and theatre critic Benedict Nightingale, to the author Anne Redmon.

In Anne Bogart: Viewpoints, drama critic Mel Gussow refers to Bogart as “ a director of the present moment and, one might add, the prescient moment.

Film critic Vincent Canby was a bit tougher on the film, and wrote, " Remy and Anne are made for each other, or would have been if The Big Easy were the sophisticated comedy it could have been ... film was directed by Jim McBride who one day is going to come up with a commercial movie that works all the way through, and not just in patches.

Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

" Bibas notes that prominent plea bargain critic Albert Alschuler supports the use of this form of plea, writing, " He views them as a lesser evil, a way to empower defendants within a flawed system.

As music critic Tim Riley notes, " singing Love and Theft shifts artfully between humble and ironic ...' I'm not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound ,' he sings in ' Floater ,' which is either hilarious or horrifying, and probably a little of both.

Joachim Pissarro notes that virtually every reviewer who commented on Pissarro ’ s work noted “ his extraordinary capacity to change his art, revise his position and take on new challenges .” One critic writes:

" Film critic Matthew Hays notes that " no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper.

Allmusic critic Greg Prato notes that the album demarcates the boundary between the band's early years and the next era of their music.

American critic Samuel Rogers, however, notes that " without the training they gave Balzac, as he groped his way to his mature conception of the novel, and without the habit he formed as a young man of writing under pressure, one can hardly imagine his producing La Comédie Humaine.

" Realism is nothing if not urban ", notes critic Peter Brooks ; the scene of a young man coming into the city to find his fortune is ubiquitous in the realist novel, and appears repeatedly in Balzac's works, such as Illusions Perdues.

British film critic Ian Freer notes that despite Kazan naming Communist party members to the House Committee on Un-American Activities two years earlier, " the film is ambivalent about the act of informing.

The film, notes critic Richard Corliss, while a serious gangster film, also " manages both to congratulate journalism for its importance and to chastise it for its chicanery, by underlining the newspapers ' complicity in promoting the underworld image.

Literary critic Hugh M. Richmond notes that Richard's beliefs about the Divine Right of Kings tend to fall more in line with the medieval view of the throne.

However, by the time he starred in Houdini ( 1953 ) with his wife Janet Leigh, " his first clear success ," notes critic David Thomson, his acting had progressed immensely.

There is also a booklet featuring an essay by critic Gary Giddins, notes about the film and two short stories introducing its characters by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, and an excerpt about Clifford Odets from Mackendrick ’ s book On Film-making, introduced by the book ’ s editor, Paul Cronin.

The case of Myrrha, critic Langdon Hammer notes, is the worst possible made against desire, because the story of Myrrha shows how sex can lead people to destroy others as well as themselves.

Literary critic Anthony W. Lee notes in his essay " Dryden's Cinyras and Myrrha " that this translation, along with several others, can be interpreted as a subtle comment on the political scene of the late seventeenth-century England.

Although it is implied that nuclear warfare has destroyed humanity, film critic Andrew Sarris notes that the episode's necessarily unrealistic format may have been what allowed its production to commence:

Film critic Roger Ebert called Hawke's performance convincing and noteworthy: " Hawke captures all the right notes as the boorish Troy.

However, Blackie Lawless himself, known to be a harsh critic of his own work, cited in the albums re-release liner notes that Inside the Electric Circus was " tired record by a tired band ".

McGee notes that the study of a term must not, and should not, be limited to its use in “ formal discourse .” Instead, the critic is much more likely to gain a better understanding of an ideograph by looking at how it is used and depicted in movies, plays, and songs, as well as how it is presented in educational texts aimed at children.

Reflecting the traditional notion that the poem was written during Arnold's honeymoon ( see composition section ), one critic notes that " the speaker might be talking to his bride ".

The same critic notes that " the poem upends our expectations of metaphor " and sees in this the central power of the poem.

New York Times film critic Vincent Canby notes, " The movie features a lot of carefully executed, comically horrible special effects ...." Canby stood as one of the few critics of the time to praise Wallace's directing: " Mr. Wallace clearly has a fondness for the clichés he is parodying and he does it with style.

In the liner notes to Atomic Basie, critic Barry Ulanov says:

Lent ’ s dozen stories get as close to three-dimensional writing as is possible .” Paul Denham, notes the struggle a critic faces with the book and labels but also sees that struggle as an impediment “ from its real emotional power of a story ( or series of stories, if you prefer ) about the joy and pain of being a family .” Two reviews in The Globe and Mail concentrate on structure and theme.

Rhino Entertainment released Hit by a Train: The Best of Old 97's, an eighteen track compilation of songs from the band's beginnings through 2001, featuring liner notes and an essay by rock critic Robert Christgau.