In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

* Andrews, Tim " Raku: a review of contemporary work ". A. C. Black, London. 1994 ISBN 0-7136836-2

Chicago Tribune critic Chris Jones, noted in his review of the Broadway musical, " Bloody, Bloody, Andrew Jackson " that the hybrid had become the most viable of the contemporary formats.

His later novels, including the Book of Bebb series and Godric, received hearty praise ; in his 1980 review of Godric, Benjamin DeMott summed up a host of positive reviews, saying “ All on his own, Mr. Buechner has managed to reinvent projects of self-purification and of faith as piquant matter for contemporary fiction, producing in a single decade a quintet of books each of which is individual in concerns and knowledge, and notable for literary finish .” In 1982, author Reynolds Price greeted Buechner ’ s The Sacred Journey as “ a rich new vein for Buechner – a kind of detective autobiography ” and “ he result is a short but fascinating and, in its own terms, beautifully successful experiment .”

Jonathan Rosenbaum, in his review for the Chicago Reader, praised Holly Hunter's performance as " something of a revelation: her short, feisty, socially gauche, aggressive-compulsive character may be the most intricately layered portrait of a career woman that contemporary Hollywood has given us ".

A contemporary critic, in a broadly favourable review, wrote, " Bliss has wisely cleared his idiom of modern harmonic astringency.

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A rare surviving contemporary review by Guy Patin, a distinguished member of the Parisian medical faculty, indicates the considerable impact Religio Medici had upon the intelligentsia abroad:

According to a contemporary review in The Libertarian Forum, " Illich's advocacy of the free market in education is the bone in the throat that is choking the public educators.

Vincent Canby, in his review of the film for the New York Times, wrote: " Norma Rae is a seriously concerned contemporary drama, illuminated by some very good performances and one, Miss Field's, that is spectacular.

* A review of the book on Goldziher of the major contemporary scholar of his oeuvre, Róbert Simon:

According to Annette Pankratz, in her 2005 Modern Drama review of Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance, by Robert Cross, " Steven Berkoff is one of the major minor contemporary dramatists in Britain and – due to his self-fashioning as a bad boy of British theatre and the ensuing attention of the media – a phenomenon in his own right.

It was outside the contemporary laws, and its actions were never subject to judicial review or control.

This review panel then issued its own 24-page report ( PB 211-014, available from NTIS ), which concluded that " the 1960-63 Corvair compares favorably with contemporary vehicles used in the tests ... the handling and stability performance of the 1960-63 Corvair does not result in an abnormal potential for loss of control or rollover, and it is at least as good as the performance of some contemporary vehicles both foreign and domestic.

Doctor Who: The Television Companion ( by Howe and Walker, BBC Publishing, 1998 ) quotes a contemporary review ( from a fanzine ) that describes the dinosaur special effects thus: " After escaping they Doctor and Sarah came up against the first dinosaur and, oh dear, shades of Basil Brush!

This review panel concluded that " the 1960 – 63 Corvair compares favorably with contemporary vehicles used in the tests ... the handling and stability performance of the 1960 – 63 Corvair does not result in an abnormal potential for loss of control or rollover, and it is at least as good as the performance of some contemporary vehicles both foreign and domestic.

Beam writes that Fomenko and his colleagues were discovered by the Soviet scientific press in the early 1980s, leading to " a brief period of renown "; a contemporary review from the journal Questions of History complained, " Their constructions have nothing in common with Marxist historical science.

Known as the Carte româneascǎ de învăţătură (" Romanian book of learning ") or Pravila lui Vasile Lupu (" Vasile Lupu's code "), the document does not go against Byzantine tradition, being a translated review of customs ( and almost identical to its Wallachian contemporary equivalent ).

The UK publication Country Music People also gave her a five star review saying " As we lament the death of Slim Dusty, here is evidence that authentic, yet contemporary Australian bush country has not died with his passing.

After a review of contemporary news sources, Northwestern Law School professor James Lindgren claimed to have found news accounts that discussed spitting incidents.

New York Times film critic Vincent Canby gave it a rather negative review, concluding with, " This fascination, on the part of contemporary Japanese filmmakers, with the destruction of their land by fantastic, prehistoric forces only 20 years after Hiroshima, might be of interest to social historians.

" A review in The Los Angeles Times stated that " With Hard Boiled, John Woo shows himself to be the best director of contemporary action films anywhere.

The work was reviewed by three critics, who gave generally lukewarm or condemnatory reactions ; to date, no authenticated wholly positive contemporary review of the piece has been found.

When Heart in Motion was released in 1991, many fans were surprised that the album was so clearly one of contemporary pop music.

The 2011 contemporary classical concept album Troika is composed of new orchestral songs set to Russian, English, and French-language poetry by five multilingual Russian-born writers: Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Lermontov, Vladimir Nabokov, Aleksandr Pushkin and Fyodor Tyutchev.

Leading contemporary composer Philip Glass described Low as " a work of genius " in 1992, when he used it as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 " Low "; subsequently, Glass used Bowie's next album as the basis for his 1996 Symphony No. 4 " Heroes ".

" However, these comments overlook the fact that Parsons, like Kelley, was considered a bona fide member of the band during 1968 and as such, was given equal billing alongside McGuinn, Hillman, and Kelley on the Sweetheart of the Rodeo album and in contemporary press coverage of the band.

David Horvitz played the instrument in a contemporary indie rock scene setting on Xiu Xiu's album, The Air Force.

The album was the worst-reviewed of their career, as the group tried to re-create itself musically with ill-advised forays into New Jack Swing ( a then-popular style of production that sonically merged hip hop and contemporary R & B ) and sometimes-preachy lyrical content.

Crash was, despite his erratic behavior, generally regarded as a brilliant lyricist ( a contemporary critic described him as " ransacking the dictionary "), and the final lineup of Smear, Doom, and Bolles had become a world-class rock ensemble by the recording of ( GI ), turning in a performance that spurred an LA Weekly reviewer to write, " This album leaves exit wounds.

The album featured electronic renditions of contemporary rock and pop songs, while utilizing synthesized voices in place of human voices.

On their 2003 album Mescalero, ZZ Top adopted a more contemporary sound while maintaining their influences from their earlier musical pursuits.

In R & B, the distinction between best contemporary R & B album and other R & B albums has been eliminated.

Rico also worked on the remix album Hybrid which featured reworkings of older songs in a more contemporary industrial style as well as new material.

* Two song settings of Vladimir Nabokov's poem " Provence " in Russian and English versions by composers Ivan Barbotin and James DeMars on the 2011 contemporary classical album Troika.

Musicologist Richard J. Ripani identified Jackson as a leader in the development of contemporary R & B, as her 1986 album Control and its successor Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 created a unique blend of genre and sound effects, that ushered in the use of rap vocals into mainstream R & B.

" The paper considered the album to be the Beatles ' " creative summit ", comparing it favourably to contemporary music and taking note of the now antiquated equipment used, concluding that " a listening experience like that offered by The Beatles is truly rare.

After releasing the " No Guru " album, Morrison's music appeared less gritty and more adult contemporary with the well-received 1987 album, Poetic Champions Compose, considered to be one of his recording highlights of the 1980s.

Rolling Stone declared the album " another impressive step in the conspiracy to recover his identity from the housewives of America and rightfully install him at the forefront of contemporary composers / performers.

The album charted on the Billboard 200 and had two hits on adult contemporary radio.

This became a landmark album for the songwriter and was voted " 3rd most important contemporary Christian album " in a mid-1980s poll of Christian music critics.

Pitchfork Music cites this album as " inspiring, in part, much of the contemporary avant-garde music scene — noise, in particular.

" British pop singer Cliff Richard, who recorded three of Norman's songs on his 1977 Small Corners album, indicated: " Larry was one of our greatest contemporary Christian songwriters, who made it his business to prove that the devil did not ' have all the good music '!

AllMusic's Jason Ankeny has described the album as an audacious and occasionally brilliant attempt to mount a fully orchestrated, classically minded work within the context of contemporary pop.

The following year, " I Still Believe " was covered by both singer / multi-instrumentalist Tim Cappello for the movie The Lost Boys and by contemporary Christian musician Russ Taff on his 1987 self-titled album.

* O2: Avalon Remixed, the sixth album and first remix album by contemporary Christian band Avalon, released in 2002