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 critic Robert Christgau's description, " It was also a subculture that scornfully rejected the political idealism and Californian flower-power silliness of hippie myth.

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.

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.

He was also known for his recurring roles, such as Beldar, father in the Coneheads family ; with Steve Martin, Georg Festrunk, one of the " Two Wild and Crazy Guys " Czech brothers ; sleazy late-night cable TV host E. Buzz Miller and his cousin, corrupt maker of children's toys and costumes Irwin Mainway ( who extolled the virtues and defended the safety of the " Bag-o-Glass " toy, perhaps the retail leader of the " Bag-o " series of toys ); Fred Garvin – male prostitute ; and high-bred but low-brow critic Leonard Pinth-Garnell.

As critic William Irwin says, the term “ has come to have almost as many meanings as users, from those faithful to Kristeva ’ s original vision to those who simply use it as a stylish way of talking about allusion and influence .”

William Irwin Thompson ( born July 1938 ) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic, but he has also been writing and publishing poetry throughout his career and received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986.

These singles were collected on Singles Going Steady, described by critic Ned Raggett as a " punk masterpiece ".

As critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine has pointed out, " Several months after releasing their first album, the Smiths issued the singles and rarities collection Hatful of Hollow, establishing a tradition of repackaging their material as many times and as quickly as possible.

Veteran rock critic Dave Marsh chose the 1958 " 5 " Royales hit " The Slummer the Slum " as one of the top 1001 singles of all time in his book The Heart of Rock and Soul, crediting Pauling with capturing the first intentional use of guitar feedback on record, years before better-known squawks from the Beatles, Yardbirds, and Velvet Underground.

Allmusic critic Thom Owens thought that the album's singles were " solid " but that the rest of the songs were " filler ".

As a result, " The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun " is remembered better than the A-side of that single, turning into what music critic Jonathan Taylor called " one of the most delightfully silly singles and videos of the past few years.

And like the critic in Der Spiegel, he singles out for special censure an interview with Die Zeit in which Syberberg claimed that he ' could understand ' the feeling of the SS man on the railway ramp of Auschwitz, who, in Himmler's words, ' made himself hard ' for the sake of fulfilling his mission to the end.

As a theologian in the group pointed out, a professional was, before the modern period of technical specialization, one who `` professed '' to be a bearer and critic of his culture in the use of his particular skills.

The mesmerizing effect prompted one critic to point out " the witch-like weirdness of the black kitten " and for many years, the painting solicited questions by the press.

However, in the original article on Young from the first edition of the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll and a subsequent article in the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide, critic Dave Marsh used this album to accuse Young of deliberately manufacturing a self-mythology, arguing that while his highlights could be seen to place him on a level with other artists from his generation like Bob Dylan or The Beatles, the particulars of his catalogue did not bear this out.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it " delightful and sly ", and directed with " light-hearted enchantment " by Newell.

Herschel Brickell, a critic for the New York Evening Post, lauded Mitchell for the way she, " tosses out the window all the thousands of technical tricks our novelists have been playing with for the past twenty years.

Among the first venues for what would soon be called " Off-Off-Broadway " ( a term supposedly coined by critic Jerry Tallmer of the Village Voice ) were coffeehouses in Greenwich Village, in particular, the Caffe Cino at 31 Cornelia Street, operated by the eccentric Joe Cino, who early on took a liking to actors and playwrights and agreed to let them stage plays there without bothering to read the plays first, or to even find out much about the content.

On the other hand Ellington's friend Earl Hines's twenty solo " transformative versions " of Ellington compositions were described by Ben Ratliff, the New York Times jazz critic, as " as good an example of the jazz process as anything out there.

The critic L. J. Hurst dismissed Aldiss's accusations, pointing out that in Triffids the main character witnesses several murders, suicides, and misadventures, and is frequently in mortal danger himself.

The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, while dismissing the movie as " an average gangster film ", singled out Falk's " amusingly vicious performance.

During his early period, Heinlein's writing for younger readers needed to take account of both editorial perceptions of sexuality in his novels, and potential perceptions among the buying public ; as critic William H. Patterson has put it, his dilemma was " to sort out what was really objectionable from what was only excessive over-sensitivity to imaginary librarians ".

The early works were both conventional and, according to the critic Charles Johnston, " utterly unIrish ", seeming to come out of a " vast murmurous gloom of dreams ".

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, calling it " an amazingly entertaining thriller " and " one of the best films so far this year ", with a " wonderful " ending.

For others, such as U. S. film critic Andrew Sarris, it takes on mystical meanings related to the emotional tone of a film: " Dare I come out and say what I

" Writing in Richardson's sister paper, The Manchester Guardian, the critic referred to Johnson's ' sex snobbery and sadism ' tag, but pointed out that whilst " the casualties take place on a somewhat narrower front than usual, they are heavy ".

He discusses the laws to which a critic should adhere while critiquing poetry, and points out that critics serve an important function in aiding poets with their works, as opposed to the practice of attacking them.

However, as critic Francis Molson points out, it is not explained whether this Tom Swift is the grandson of the famous Tom Swift of the first series or still the Tom Swift, Jr., of the second.

" Film critic Roger Ebert gave Mulan three and a half stars out of four in his written review.

Jazz critic Harvey Pekar has also pointed out that one of Django Reinhardt's recorded improvisations strays drastically from the chord changes of the established piece.

Film critic Pauline Kael adopts a more neutral stance, while Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel writes " The nostalgia surrounding Rogers-Astaire tends to bleach out other partners.

However, film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars out of a possible 4 and commented that " Some will say the movie breaks tradition by telling a medieval story with a soundtrack of classic rock.

Film critic Leonard Maltin gave the film two-and-a-half stars ( out of four ) in his 2009 movie guide ; he said that the film was " self-indulgent and largely negative ," and that " great show biz moments and wonderful dancing are eventually buried in pretensions "; he also called the ending " an interminable finale which leaves a bad taste for the whole film.

This 2009 documentary film chronicles what occurred as a result: the New York Times fired Bosley Crowther because his negative review seemed so out of touch with the public, and Pauline Kael, who wrote a lengthy freelance essay in The New Yorker in praise of the film, became the magazine's new staff critic.