Critics generally approved of the changes, but Berle's ratings continued to fall and Buick pulled out after two seasons.

Today interest in literary theory and Continental philosophy coexists in university literature departments with a more conservative literary criticism which the New Critics would probably have approved of.

Critics predicted that the column would fall apart upon separation from the rock, but Montferrand's experience with the columns of St. Isaac's persuaded Nicholas I, who approved the project in December 1829.

Critics approved of the writing but found the plot unoriginal and some of the language distracting.

Critics also approved of its handling of James ' first sexual experience, with a Swedish exchange student ( Kirsten Baker ) in the episode which aired February 9, 1978 — at which point the show assumed the name James at 16.

Critics pointed out that these new measures, approved even with the parliamentary votes of Alleanza Nazionale itself, were proof that Fini and his party had made a complete volte-face and abandoned some of their core political reforms in order to stay in power.

Critics lauded the game's blend of RPG and platforming aspects.

Critics have noted that Strauss's additions contain an interesting blend of the classical style of composition and Strauss's own characteristic sound.

Critics praised The Secret of Monkey Island for its humor, audiovisuals, and gameplay.

Critics especially praised the episode for its touching moments, in contrast with the off-color humor often employed in the series.

" Critics of both Popmatters and IGN criticized the first few episodes but felt the show regained its humor after " Don't Make Me Over " which included this episode.

Critics as well as Ambler fans ( and the author himself in an Introduction to the novel ) have pointed out that The Dark Frontier was meant to be a parody of the brand of adventure thriller Ambler enjoyed as an adolescent but came to find rather silly when he reached adulthood.

Critics would say that Arnold's Martian adventure was not as well written, and the fact that Gullivar doesn't quite defeat his enemies or get the girl in the end helps explain why his novel not as popular as Burroughs ', which was followed by ten sequels.

The film also won the Critics ' Award at Fantasporto, and was nominated for the International Fantasy Film Award in the category of Best Film in 1993.

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

It was awarded the Camera d ' Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival as well as the 1985 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film, and became a landmark work in modern independent film.

Critics believed the film to be " too sweet " but appreciated Dixit's performance as she mesmerized on the screen.

He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.

Critics complained that the film was incoherent, and the experience soured Peckinpah forever on Hollywood.

Although it remains a controversial film, it has been praised by various film historians and critics, and, while not typically considered a horror film, Salò was named the 65th scariest film ever made by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2006 and is the subject of an article in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural ( 1986 ).

In 2006, the Chicago Film Critics Association named Salò the 65th scariest film ever made.

The Chicago Film Critics Association named it the 5th scariest film ever made.

Critics panned the revised film, notably Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News.

Critics tended to claim the film was either sensationalizing nuclear war or that it was too tame.

The film won glowing reviews for her ; and she won a second Academy Award for Best Actress, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) Award, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.

Critics point out that the film Pearl Harbors US-biased portrayal of events is a compensation for technical assistance received by the US armed forces.

The film enjoys a 100 % " Fresh " rating on the site's " Top Critics " section, based on 8 reviews.

Critics found the film ’ s plot and characterization unconvincing, but praised its action sequences.

For the film Eastwood received nominations for Best Original Score at the 66th Golden Globe Awards, Best Direction at the 62nd British Academy Film Awards and director of the year from the London Film Critics ' Circle.

Critics generally applauded the film and the performances of the entire cast, which included actors Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan.

The Chicago Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Film Critics Association named the film the best of 1999, but although the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association recognized American Beauty, they gave their top awards to other films.

" Critics believed that An American in Paris was better crafted than his lukewarm Concerto in F. Some did not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, Richard Wagner, or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere.

Critics differ about Swift ’ s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.

Critics have also argued that, as the Austrian business cycle theory points to the actions of fractional-reserve banks and central banks to explain the business cycles, it fails to explain the severity of business cycles before the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913.

Critics of the government say that the $ 500 million credit from Russia should have gone to develop industry, instead of going to the construction sector.

Critics of the Kocharian government say that the Armenian administration never considered alternative ways of settling the Russian debts.

Critics sneered at " Seward's Folly " and " Seward's Icebox " and " Icebergia.

Critics maintain that the terms “ complementary ” and “ alternative medicine ” are deceptive euphemisms meant to give an impression of medical authority.

Critics of academic elitism argue that highly-educated people tend to form an isolated social group whose views tend to be overrepresented amongst journalists, professors, and other members of the intelligentsia who often draw their salary and funding from taxpayers.

In 2011 the production received four Lucille Lortel Award nominations including Outstanding Musical, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League nominations, as well as five Drama Desk nominations including Outstanding Musical and won for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.

Critics of this type of argument have tended to point out that this is just a standard criticism of representative democracy — a democratically elected government will not always act in the direction of greatest current public support — and that, therefore, there is no inconsistency in the leaders ' positions given that these countries are parliamentary democracies.

Critics of United States foreign policy such as Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, and anti-globalist pranksters The Yes Men are widely accepted inside the movement.

Critics assert that the empirical evidence does not support the views of the anti-globalization movement.

Critics of corporate-led globalization have expressed concern about the methodology used in arriving at the World Bank's statistics and argue that more detailed variables measuring poverty should be studied.

Critics have asserted that people from poor countries ( the Third World ) have been relatively accepting and supportive of globalization while the strongest opposition to globalization has come from wealthy " First World " activists, unions and NGOs.

Critics of the SAP argue in favor of a weak anthropic principle ( WAP ) similar to the one defined by Brandon Carter, which states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias: i. e., only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing any such fine tuning, while a universe less compatible with life will go unbeheld.

It won the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award and the Tony Award for Best Musical.

Capp appeared as a regular on The Author Meets the Critics ( 1948 –' 54 ) and made regular, weekly appearances on Today in 1953.

Critics argued that Whorf's ideas were untestable and poorly formulated and that they were based on badly analyzed or misunderstood data.

Critics contended the firings had been done to allow friends of the Clintons to take over the travel business and that the involvement of the FBI was unwarranted.

Later, when The Village Voice conducted its Pazz & Jop Critics Poll for 2001, " Love and Theft " topped the list, the third Dylan album to accomplish this.

Critics question how bundle theory accounts for the properties ' compresence ( the togetherness relation between those properties ) without an underlying substance.

Critics also question how any two given properties are determined to be properties of the same object if there is no substance in which they both inhere.