The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

* 1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic

John Jay Parry, the editor of De Amore, quotes critic Robert Bossuat as describing " De Amore " as " one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explains the secret of a civilization ".

Korner married Roberta, daughter of art critic Robert Melville.

Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel passed over Disraeli when putting together his government in 1841 and Disraeli, hurt, gradually became a sharp critic of Peel's government, often deliberately adopting positions contrary to those of his nominal chief.

Mather's contemporary critic, Robert Calef, considered him responsible for laying the very groundwork that inspired the trials at Salem, pg.

In January 1979, rock critic Robert Christgau argued that homophobia, and most likely racism, were reasons behind the backlash, a conclusion seconded by John Rockwell.

: The mock epic ( A. J. Liebling, Calvin Trillin, the French writer Robert Courtine, and any good restaurant critic ) is essentially comic and treats the small ambitions of the greedy eater as though they were big and noble, spoofing the idea of the heroic while raising the minor subject to at least temporary greatness.

Though not a commercial success, Gilded was measured by rock critic Robert Christgau as " an ominous, obsessive, tongue-in-cheek country-rock synthesis, absorbing rural and urban, traditional and contemporary, at point of impact.

For others, such as art critic Robert Hughes, postmodernism represents an extension of modernism.

In May 1974, Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn reviewed the second New York Dolls album, Too Much Too Soon.

Robert Penn Warren ( April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989 ) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.

Meanwhile, Stephen had put down two revolts in the south-west led by Baldwin de Redvers and Robert of Bampton ; Baldwin was released after his capture and travelled to Normandy, where he became an increasingly vocal critic of the king.

Robert Christgau gave the album an A +, and Seattle Rocket critic Bruce Pavitt called Let It Be " mature diverse rock that could well shoot these regional boys into the national mainstream ".

According to art critic Robert Hughes, van Gogh's late works show an artist at the height of his ability, completely in control and " longing for concision and grace ".

** Robert Benchley, American humorist, theater critic, and actor ( b. 1889 )

** Robert Barnard, British writer, critic and lecturer

During this time, Hickman released a first solo recording, " Palmhenge ", which received " Voices Choice " accolades in The Village Voice by the rock critic Robert Christgau and a positive review in Blender magazine.

The critic Robert Irwin singles out the two versions of The Thief of Baghdad ( 1924 version directed by Raoul Walsh ; 1940 version produced by Alexander Korda ) and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Il fiore delle Mille ed una notte ( 1974 ) as ranking " high among the masterpieces of world cinema.

Bogdanovich hosted The Essentials on Turner Classic Movies, but was replaced in May 2006 by TCM host Robert Osborne and film critic Molly Haskell.

Schumann or Schuman most famously refers to Robert Schumann ( 1810 – 1856 ), German composer and critic ; it may also refer to the following:

After movie critic Eleanor Keane left the Sun-Times in April 1967, editor Robert Zonk gave the job to Ebert.

Tom has no formal education past the high school level ; according to critic Robert Von der Osten, Tom's ability to invent is presented as " somehow innate ".

Unlike his father, Tom Jr. is not just a tinkerer ; he relies on scientific and mathematical theories, and, according to critic Robert Von der Osten, " science the books is, in fact, understood to be a set of theories that are developed based on experimentation and scientific discussion.

Slate music critic Jody Rosen describes Christgau's writing as " often maddening, always thought-provoking ... With Pauline Kael, Christgau is arguably one of the two most important American mass-culture critics of the second half of the 20th century.

He was seldom an unmethodical critic, and his reviews generally followed a systematic pattern: a description of what the work contained, a treatment of the things that had especially interested him in it, and, wherever possible, a balancing of whatever artistic merits and faults he might have found.

In critic Steven Blush's description, " The Sex Pistols were still rock ' n ' roll ... like the craziest version of Chuck Berry.

In critic Kurt Loder's description, the Sex Pistols purveyed a " calculated, arty nihilism, the Clash were unabashed idealists, proponents of a radical left-wing social critique of a sort that reached back at least to ... Woody Guthrie in the 1940s ".

Instead of taking on the classical criticism of art that involved knowledge of color, composition and line, Gautier was strongly influenced by Denis Diderot's idea that the critic should have the ability to describe the art so as the reader can " see " the art through his description.

In critic Steven Blush's description, " The Sex Pistols were still rock ' n ' roll ... like the craziest version of Chuck Berry.

The critic Reyner Banham erroneously dubbed the Smithsons ' pared-down style " the New Brutalism ": Hunstanton doesn't fit this description, which has become a derogatory term, although it is clear that the rigorous Modernism of Hunstanton School is in stark contrast to the more gentle, European tradition that had characterised the Festival of Britain.

In Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, the literary critic Erich Auerbach considers the Hebrew narrative of the Binding of Isaac, along with Homer's description of Odysseus's scar, as the two paradigmatic models for the representation of reality in literature.

A return to the stage and a nude scene with Keith Michell during Abelard and Heloise in 1970 led to a notorious description of her as ' built like a brick basilica with insufficient flying buttresses ', by the acerbic critic John Simon.

Beethoven's " Moonlight " Sonata derives its name from an 1832 description of the first movement by music critic Ludwig Rellstab, who compared it to moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne.

An anonymous critic in the July 1820 Monthly Review claimed, " this writer is very rich both in imagination and fancy ; and even a superabundance of the latter faculty is displayed in his lines ' On Autumn ,' which bring the reality of nature more before our eyes than almost any description that we remember.

Initially Kenny was perceived, by a critic, as being unsuited to the field of light entertainment as this description of Kenny Live!

The monument of Paddy Chayefsky in Sharon Gardens Division of Kensico CemeteryDrama critic Martin Gottfried gives a general description of Chayefsky's personal traits as they may have affected his writings:

New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff gives this description:

Geertz's " thick description " approach was adopted by the sociologist Allen Scarboro, psychologist Nancy Campbell and literary critic Shirley Stave in their book Living Witchcraft: A Contemporary American Coven ( 1994 ).

Dannemeyer was an outspoken critic of homosexuality and on June 29, 1989 read a graphic description of gay sex into the Congressional Record entitled " What Homosexuals Do.

This hostility is illustrated by this description of Grossman's presence in the Greenwich Village folk scene by Dylan biographer and critic Michael Gray: " He was a pudgy man with derisive eyes, with a regular table at Gerde's Folk City from which he surveyed the scene in silence, and many people loathed him.

Music critic Ian MacDonald was unsure if John Lennon played guitar on the track ; in his description of the recording sessions for the song, Mark Lewisohn did not mention a guitar track.

But the tide turned in Gaskell ’ s favor when, in 1950, a Marxist critic became interested in her description of social and industrial problems ( see Moore, 1999 for an elaboration ), and — realizing that her vision went against the prevailing views of the time — saw it, instead, as preparing the way for vocal feminist movements ( Stoneman 1987, p. 118 )