William Melvin " Bill " Hicks ( December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994 ) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician.

Nicolas Slonimsky ( – December 25, 1995 ) was a Russian born American composer, conductor, musician, music critic, lexicographer and author.

Some of his individual songs ( he wrote more than 60 ) were occasionally included in vocal recitals ; referring to " the strange songs of Fritz Delius ", The Times critic expressed regret " that the powers the composer undoubtedly possesses should not be turned to better account or undergo proper development at the hands of some musician competent to train them ".

With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues ; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, " no one could match Howlin ' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits.

He made dismissive comments about the current standards of musical criticism (" the average newspaper critic of music ... is either a shipwrecked or worn-out musician, or else a journalist too incompetent for ordinary reporting ") which offended senior critics such as Ernest Newman.

She worked with British poet, critic, and musician Eric Walter White on several films, and he wrote the early book-length essay on her work – Walking Shadows: An Essay on Lotte Reiniger's Silhouette Films, ( London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf, 1931 ).

Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann ( April 12, 1915 – June 4, 1995 ) was a German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, jazz musician, jazz critic, psychoanalyst, sexologist, and committed socialist.

Brockenhurst is also the place of residence of Mark Kermode, renowned BBC film critic and skiffle musician.

The cricket writer and music critic Neville Cardus was born in Rusholme, as was musician Roy Harper and actress Tina O ' Brien.

Nick Kent ( born 24 December 1951 ) is a British rock critic and musician.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Roxon became close friends with critic and rock manager Danny Fields, Village Voice journalist Blair Sabol, musician and writer Lenny Kaye ( later the guitarist in Patti Smith's band and compiler of the original Nuggets LP ), photographers Linda McCartney and Leee Black Childers and Australian academic, author and feminist Germaine Greer.

* Sasha Frere-Jones ( 1993 ), American writer, music critic, and musician

Marc Riley ( born in Manchester, England, 10 July 1961 ) is a British musician, alternative rock critic and radio DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music.

In 1857, the critic Charles Monselet wrote: " Is this a musician who writes, or a writer who makes music?

He is an artist, musician, media critic and currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Salford and Professor at Lüneburg University.

47 Natkal ( 1981 ), which traces the adversities of a newly-wed Indian woman living with an scurrilous, expatriate husband in a Parisian suburb ; and Sindhu Bhairavi ( 1985 ), about the intellectual collision and subsequent romance between a lofty Carnatic musician and his ardent female critic.

He did not however isolate himself completely, becoming very close to the group of Romanian students attending the University of Berlin and to other young people: among them were poet and essayist Panait Cerna, sociologist Dimitrie Gusti, musician Florica Musicescu, and Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea's son-in-law, the literary critic Paul Zarifopol.

British critic Jonathan Woolf has written: " De Greef was, in all respects, an intensely musical, non-sensationalist, eloquent and impressive musician and whilst not being averse to some of the interventionist tactics of his contemporaries ( retouching of the score ) remained sympathetically self-effacing ".

Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835, the eldest son of musician and music critic James Stuart Geikie.

He is also a classically trained musician and a critic of film, music, and other media.

Regular guests included comedians Adam Spencer and Akmal Saleh, netballer Liz Ellis, Play School host Rhys Muldoon, musician Pinky Beecroft, and music critic Molly Meldrum.

Prominent Norwegian Jews include former president of Stortinget ( the parliament ), Jo Benkow ; Leo Eitinger and Berthold Grünfeld, who were noted psychiatrists ; Robert Levin, the musician ; theatre critic Mona Levin and Bente Kahan, an actress and vocalist.

Dickon Edwards ( also known as Dickon Angel ) is a London-based indie pop musician, writer, critic, DJ and online diarist.

* Jason King ( journalist ), cultural critic and musician

She co-wrote her autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid ( New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999 ) with popular media critic and author Digby Diehl.

The failure of the Government of India to provide effective famine relief made William Digby an outspoken critic of the British Government's India policy.

Bernard Shaw, in his role as a music critic, commented, " The stale wonderment which the great chorus never fails to elicit has already been exhausted "; he later wrote, " Why, instead of wasting huge sums on the multitudinous dullness of a Handel Festival does not somebody set up a thoroughly rehearsed and exhaustively studied performance of the Messiah in St James's Hall with a chorus of twenty capable artists?

Adolf Bäurle, a local critic, wrote " if Schikaneder and partner Zitterbarth had had the idea ... to charge admission simply for looking at the glories of their Theater an der Wien, Schikaneder would certainly have been able to take in vast sums of money without giving one single performance.

What Lucas wrote about Housman ’ s Name and Nature of Poetry in 1933 ( though he contested some of its ideas ) sums up what he himself aspired to as a literary critic: "… the kind of critical writing that best justifies itself before the brevity of life ; that itself adds new data to our experience as well as arguing about the old ; that happily combines, in a word, philosophy with autobiography, psychology with a touch of poetry – of the ‘ poetic ’ imagination.

" Kenneth Turan, film critic of the Los Angeles Times, sums up the positions in his chapter on the festival in his book From Sundance to Sarajevo by saying that " the hothouse filmocentric universe Telluride creates over a Labor Day weekend has always been more a religion than anything as ordinary as a festival, complete with messianic believers and agnostic scoffers.

It received an 8. 3 from Pitchforkmedia. com, with critic Grayson Currin writing, " Surrounded by little else but her own melancholy, Nadler sums up her career's existential despair: ' Ghosts and lovers / They will haunt you for a while ,' she sings.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

* Raymond Williams ( 1921 – 1988 ) academic, critic and writer was born and brought up locally.

Summing up, one critic called the initial 15th edition a " qualified failure ...&# 91 ; that &# 93 ; cares more for juggling its format than for preserving information.

The daughter of Philip M. Hatfield ( a radiologist ) and The Boston Globe fashion critic Julie Hatfield, Juliana was born in Maine and grew up in the Boston suburb of Duxbury.

More recently Internet sites have started up that publish both food critic reviews and popular reviews by the general public such as RestaurantGuide. com and TheBigFork. com.

Frey, a leading animal rights critic, who wrote in 1983 that, if forced to choose between abandoning experiments on animals and allowing experiments on " marginal-case " humans, he would choose the latter, " not because I begin a monster and end up choosing the monstrous, but because I cannot think of anything at all compelling that cedes all human life of any quality greater value than animal life of any quality.

Summing up their contribution to popular music, critic Dave Thompson later wrote: " From bad-mannered yobs to purveyors of supreme pop delicacies, the group was responsible for music that may have been ugly and might have been crude – but it was never, ever boring.

Willkie had first come to public attention as an articulate critic of Roosevelt's attempt to break up electrical power monopolies.

Menem also effected drastic cuts to the military budget, and appointed Lt. Gen. Martín Balza as the Army's General Chief of Staff ( head of the military hierarchy ); Balza, a man of strong democratic convictions and a vocal critic of the Falklands War, had stood up for the legitimate government in every attempted coup d ' état throughout his senior career, and gave the first institutional self-criticism about the Armed Forces ' involvement in the 1976 coup and the ensuing reign of terror.

As The Plain Dealer music critic Michael Norman noted, " It was $ 65 million ... Cleveland wanted it here and put up the money.

In the lead up to the January 2005 Iraqi election INC joined the United Iraqi Alliance coalition of mainly Shi ' ite groups as Chalabi reinvented himself as a sharp critic of the occupation, aligning himself with Muqtada al-Sadr.

Sam Adams, critic for the Philadelphia City Paper, wrote, " The codes of the time prevented Lewis from being explicit about the extent to which their fast-blooming romance is fueled by their mutual love of weaponry ( Arthur Penn would rip off the covers in Bonnie and Clyde, which owes Gun Crazy a substantial debt ), but when Cummins ' six-gun dangles provocatively as she gasses up their jalopy, it's clear what really fills their collective tank.

The album received mixed reviews, with the lyrics being described as " tired " and " dull ", though critic Greil Marcus praised the musical complexity of the album by saying: " It carries the listener into a musical home so perfect and complete he or she might have forgotten that music could call up such a place, and then populate it with people, acts, wishes, fears.

Film critic Roger Ebert once has argued that games can never be art, as he claimed they lack the authorial control seen in film, and leave too much up to choice.

Poet and critic Hayden Carruth grew up in the town.

* Richard Wilbur ( born 1921 ), poet, critic, and translator grew up in North Caldwell and won two Pulitzer Prizes and served as United States Poet Laureate.

His activities as a critic began to pick up.

The music critic Tom Sutcliffe later wrote that Doráti and his successors, Colin Davis ( 1967 – 71 ), Pierre Boulez ( 1971 – 75 ) and Gennady Rozhdestvensky ( 1978 – 81 ) had been partly successful in improving playing standards, but had not the brought the orchestra up to its original level of distinction.

According to the critic W J Turner the LSO's problem was not that its playing had deteriorated, but that it had failed to keep up with the considerable improvements in playing achieved over the past two decades by the best European and American orchestras.

However, Fouts's friend John B. L. Goodwin said Fouts often made up stories about his life, and literary critic Katherine Bucknell thought many of the tales about him were myth.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, also liked it, writing, " Slowly, through a process of guarded discourse, which director John Sturges has built up by patient, methodical pacing of his almost completely male cast, an eerie light begins to glimmer ... Quite as interesting as the drama, which smacks of being contrived, are the types of masculine creatures paraded in this film.

British film critic Mark Kermode speaking in 2006, and attempting to sum up the director's achievement, called Russell, " somebody who proved that British cinema didn't have to be about kitchen-sink realism — it could be every bit as flamboyant as Fellini.

Hillel Goldberg writes that Hutner became a fierce critic of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic group and the " personality cult built up around " its Rebbe Schneerson.