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A Pig-Boy and His Dog

"A Pig-Boy and His Dog" is the 13th episode of The Critic.


John Crockford

He had a long association with Edward William Cox with whom he founded The Critic, The Field and The Clerical Directory.

Rich Moore

His animation directing credits include the television series The Simpsons, Futurama, The Critic, Drawn Together and Baby Blues, and the segment "Spy vs. Spy" for MADtv.

Travis Powers

‘’’Travis Powers’’’ is a Sound Designer/Supervising sound effects editor and Composer who has worked on several animated television series, including The Simpsons, Futurama, Dilbert, The PJs, The Critic, The Tracey Ullman Show, Mission Hill and King of the Hill.


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A Trampwoman's Tragedy

The critic Edmund Gosse praised the poem, and the American artist Rockwell Kent considered illustrating it, before choosing another of Hardy's poems to be published with his artwork.

Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani

Al-Jurjānī was influenced by his predecessors such as the grammarian Sibawayh, the critic Abi Helal al-'Askari al Balaghi, and the linguist and literary theorist Abu Ali al-Farisi, known for his book al-Idah (Elucidation).

Asmus Jacob Carstens

A biography was published in 1806 by his friend, the critic and archaeologist Karl Ludwig Fernow, who was later the royal librarian at Weimar, which has the best collection of his graphic work.

Brice Marden

Writing in The New Yorker in 2006, the critic Peter Schjeldahl described Marden as "the most profound abstract painter of the past four decades.".

Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

However, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant concentrates on a new set of characters, principally the composer Hugh Moreland, (based on Powell's close friend Constant Lambert), his fiancée Matilda, and the critic Maclintick and his wife, Audrey, whose unhappy marriage forms a key part of the narrative.

Charles Radcliffe

Its treatment of popular culture has since been hailed as path-breaking: the critic Jon Savage has said that one piece by Radcliffe "laid the foundation for the next 20 years of sub-cultural theory."

Collège des Quatre-Nations

Notable students of the college include the encyclopedist Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783), the painter Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), the critic Julien Louis Geoffroy (1743–1814) and the chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794).

Dilke baronets

Dilke was the son of the critic and writer on literature Charles Wentworth Dilke.

Dmitry Kuzmin

Dmitry Kuzmin was born in Moscow, son of the architect Vladimir Legoshin and the literary critic Edwarda Kuzmina; among his grandparents were the critic Boris Kuzmin and the prominent literary translator Nora Gal.

Elizabeth Barry

The actor Thomas Betterton said that her acting gave "success to plays that would disgust the most patient reader", and the critic and playwright John Dennis described her as "that incomparable Actress changing like Nature which she represents, from Passion to Passion, from Extream to Extream, with piercing Force and with easy Grace".

Emilio Vedova

In 1947 Vedova founded Fronte Nuovo delle Arti,In 1952 he became a member of the influential and more avant garde, Gruppo degli Otto (Afro, Birolli, Corpora, Santomaso, Morlotti, Vedova, Moreni, Turcato), organised by the critic Lionello Venturi.

Fontaine de Léda

The fountain was condemned by the critic Amaury Duval in 1812 because of the subject of the bas-relief, Jupiter transforming himself into a swan to seduce Leda.

George Bernard O'Neill

In the 1870s, along with George Henry Boughton, he became friends with James McNeill Whistler and offered him moral support during the years 1877-78, when Whistler sued the critic John Ruskin for libel.

George Fortescue

Among his correspondents were Galileo Galilei, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, nephew of Urban VIII, Famiano Strada, the historian of the Spanish wars in Flanders, Thomas Farnaby, the critic and grammarian, and Gregorio Panzani, who was sent by Urban VIII on a mission to the English Catholics.

Giovanni Punto

They premièred the work on 18 April 1800 at the Burgtheater and the following month the pair played the work again in Pest, Hungary (it was here that the critic commented "who is this Beethoven?...").

Hannah Whitall Smith

They eventually divorced, and Mary then married the critic Bernard Berenson.

Josef Hoffmann

The critic Henry-Russell Hitchcock in 1929 wrote, ‘In Germany as well as in Austria, Hoffmann’s manner has profoundly influenced the New Tradition’.

Kaleldo

In the 2007 Jeonju International Film Festival held in Korea it won the critic's prize for the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) which was received by director Brillante Mendoza.

Kathy Corrigan

NDP leader Carole James assigned Corrigan to be the critic for the 2010 Winter Olympics and ActNow BC, opposite Mary McNeil who was Minister of State for the Olympics and ActNow BC.

Kedok Ketawa

The critic-cum-screenwriter Saeroen, writing for Pemandangan, praised the film, especially its cinematography; he compared it to imported Hollywood films.

Lynne Taetzsch

Taetzsch’s art appears on the covers of the Spring, 1990 issue of Sundog, the Spring, 1989 issue of Pacific Review, and in her multi-genre essay "Hang the Critic ‘and/both’ Resurrect the Author" in the Fall, 1989 issue of Central Park.

Modern Greek art

In the early 20th century Demetrios Galanis, a contemporary and friend of Picasso, achieved wide recognition in France and lifelong membership of the Académie française following his acclaim by the critic Andre Malreaux as an artist capable "of stirring emotions as powerful as those of Giotto".

Montanablue

Unfortunately being the critic's darlings did not translate into the kind of sales WEA had imagined and after releasing 2 more EP's on WEA and most importantly after the death of Conny Plank in 1987 the band lost any leverage it may have had and were dropped by WEA and Harold Goldbach.

Mortel Transfert

The critic from Libération applauded the black humour which he felt was reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry and wondered if Beineix could have exploited the comedy element more.

Paul Callan

Callan is also known for his acerbic book reviews despite being described by the critic Clive James as "having the literary sensibilities of a vampire bat".

Peter Saul

The critic Holland Cotter in a 2008 New York Times review of a retrospective of his work called Saul "a classic artist’s artist, one of our few important practicing history painters and a serial offender in violation of good taste".

Pseudoscience

Reversed burden of proof: In science, the burden of proof rests on those making a claim, not on the critic.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Quimper

Other notable secular members of the diocese are the classical scholar Jean Hardouin (1646–1729) and the critic Élie Catherine Fréron (1719–71).

Sherri Stoner

In 2010, Sherri, along with Paul Rugg, Tom Ruegger, Nathan Ruegger & John P. McCann appeared in The Nostalgia Critic's Animaniacs Tribute and was interviewed by The Critic.

Stanford Robinson

In 2007, Alan Blyth, the critic of Gramophone magazine, wrote that it remained "one of the most convincing" and that Robinson "gives the work the dramatic verve that it calls for".

The Comfort of Strangers

In The New York Times, the critic John Leonard wrote "No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work."

The Vodi

Nevertheless, the book was Braine's own favourite, and the critic Martin Seymour-Smith described it as a "more interesting and imaginative work" than Room at the Top.

The Winter Murder Case

"The decline in the last six Vance books is so steep that the critic who called the ninth of them one more stitch in his literary shroud was not overstating the case." wrote Julian Symons in Bloody Murder.

Theatre of France

Inspired by the theatrical experiments in the early half of the century and by the horrors of the war, the avant-garde Parisian theatre, "New theatre" or, as the critic Martin Esslin termed it, "Theatre of the Absurd," around the writers Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal, refused simple explanations and abandoned traditional characters, plots and staging.

Victor Willing

Willing was admired by his fellow students for his adventurous talent and intellectual zest and was denoted 'spokesman for his generation' by the critic David Sylvester.

Walter Rossiter

In 1918 after the Exhibition at the Pastel Society, Rossiter received a mention by the critic Ezra Pound on The New Age Magazine.

Yvonne Printemps

The critic Richard Traubner commented in 2006 that because of the performances of Printemps and Fresnay the film still "hangs over anyone who dares revive the operetta on stage".