John Simon
John Simon
standards lows loses
It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.
player games fancy
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.
idiot wonderful hated
It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.
people time-and-money
People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?
art two entertainment
Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.
We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor.
sports strong real
Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much artistry can still dazzle us in the manner of the circus or sports arena translated to a higher plane. Though the perfect blend of the two elements is the consummation devoutly to be wished, the real enemy of good ballet is not the slight preponderance of one or the other but the prevalence of pantomime--the turning of dance into second-rate theater.
funny flying bricks
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.