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CRITIC [18 records]

Record 1 2017-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Films
OBS

This film records a lecture given to students by outspoken nuclear critic, Dr. Helen Caldicott, president of Physicians for Social Responsibility in the United States. Her message is clear, disarmement cannot be postponed. Archival film footage of the bombing of Hiroshima and images of its survivors seven months after the attack heighten the urgency of her message : namely, that unless we shake off our indifference and work to prevent nuclear war, we stand a slim chance of surviving the 20th century.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de films
OBS

Le titre de ce film aurait pu tenir dans un cri : S.O.S. Terre! L'arsenal nucléaire actuel est tel que bien des sources autorisées doutent, en effet, que l'humanité atteigne l'an 2000! Dans une conférence filmée en 1981, la docteure Helen Caldicott relève les calculs de probabilité les plus connus («une chance sur deux d'ici à 1985» ce sont les prévisions de l'état-major américain confirmées par l'université Harvard et le Massachusetts Institute of Technology) et la «chronique des erreurs» (les ordinateurs du Pentagone se seraient trompés 151 fois en 18 mois!

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Cinematography
  • Television Arts
DEF

An individual who writes and/or publishes a review of a film from either an artistic or entertainment point of view.

CONT

Film reviews often analyze and discuss a film’s details, its content and characters, a critique of the performances, camera work, directing, editing, production, and script; film critics are usually more philosophical and theoretical than film reviewers or commentators; film criticism refers to the analysis of the narrative, historical and stylistic characteristics of film; ’critics’is sometimes abbreviated as crix.

OBS

The familiar plural form of "critic" is "crix".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Cinématographie
  • Télévision (Arts du spectacle)
DEF

Personne qui fait une analyse commentée d'œuvres cinématographiques en tant que forme artistique ou de divertissement.

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cinematography
CONT

Described by [a] New York filmmaker and critic... as the most important North American avant-garde filmmaker to emerge during the 1980s...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cinématographie
CONT

Il est considéré par [un] réalisateur et critique new-yorkais [...] comme le plus important des cinéastes d’avant-garde d’Amérique du Nord apparus au cours des années 1980.

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Painting (Arts)
CONT

[He] was encouraged by [an art critic] to abandon his abstract expressionist style characterized by hovering amorphous shapes on the picture plane. He would simplify his composition by using an all-over coverage of thinly applied bright colours inspired by his watercolour sketches.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peinture (Arts)
CONT

[...] il rencontre [un] influent critique d’art new-yorkais qui l’encourage à abandonner son style expressionniste abstrait, caractérisé par des formes amorphes flottant dans le plan pictural. Bush simplifiera alors sa composition par l’application «all-over» de minces couches de couleurs brillantes inspirées de ses esquisses à l’aquarelle.

Spanish

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Record 5 2014-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

Chairman : Morris Foster, Liberal Critic for Agriculture.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
OBS

Renseignement obtenu du bureau de Morris Foster.

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Wood
  • Wood Sawing
CONT

As Forests critic, I want to joint with the Minister of Forests today in welcoming the representatives from communities around this province that may well be adversely affected by the rougher-headed-lumber dispute.

Key term(s)
  • rougher-head-lumber

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de bois
  • Sciage du bois
CONT

Le bois raboté à surface texturée a été raboté d'un côté pour que la peinture ou la teinture puisse y adhérer.

OBS

Bois qui a été raboté sur trois faces et qui conserve une face brute avec des motifs. Ce bois est utilisé, entre autres, pour faire des encadrements de fenêtres et de portes.

OBS

Équivalent et explication fournis par M. Nsimba Kinuani de l'Association des manufacturiers de bois de sciage à Québec.

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Painting (Arts)
  • Sculpture
OBS

A term devised by the Italian critic Germano Celant in 1967 [to] stress the poverty or unworthiness(i. e. non fine art) of... materials employed [such as coal, sand, earth, wood, stones, twigs, cement, felt, rubber, rope, newspapers. ]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peinture (Arts)
  • Sculpture
CONT

Le caractère élémentaire de certains matériaux, choisis en raison même de leur «pauvreté» et de l'activité de ses «compositions», est une des solutions aux exigences fondamentales de l'art pauvre.

Spanish

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Record 8 2010-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
  • Geology
OBS

[Mollic epipedon is] a thick, dark surface layer, more than 50 per cent base saturated(dominantly with bivalent cations), having a narrow C/N ratio(17/1 or less in virgin state and 13/1 and less with cultivated soils), a strong soil structure, a relatively soft consistency when dry, and less than 250 ppm of P2O5 soluble in critic acid.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
  • Géologie
OBS

«Parmi les épipédons», la 7e Approximation distingue les formes suivantes d'accumulation d'humus : - «l'épipédon mollique» à humus calcique [...]

Spanish

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Record 9 2008-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Musical Works
  • Dance
OBS

Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet was the first abstract work Balanchine designed for the stage of the New York State Theater, which replaced the smaller City Center of Music and Drama as the home of New York City Ballet in 1964. Balanchine often said that chamber music was not suitable for large ballets, since chamber pieces typically are "too long, with too many repeats, and are meant for small rooms. "Schoenberg crafted his orchestration of the Brahms G minor piano quartet in 1930's out of a similar dissatisfaction, telling a critic that the chamber version "is always very badly played, as the better the pianist, the louder he plays, and one hears nothing of the strings. "The title refers to the fact that the 20th-century Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg orchestrated this piano quartet by 19th-century German composer Johannes Brahms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres d'œuvres musicales
  • Danse

Spanish

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Record 10 2000-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
DEF

A critic of globalization.

CONT

The "globaphobes" are right about one thing: multinationals are increasingly important... but is this a bad thing? The facts suggest not: foreign firms pay their workers more than the national average; are creating jobs faster than are their domestic counterparts; spend heavily on research and development in the countries where they invest; tend to export more than domestic ones.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances

Spanish

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Record 11 1999-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Art History and Theory
  • Painting (Arts)
DEF

A style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements [especially] by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of depicted objects.

OBS

Term derived from a reference made to ’geometric schemas and cubes’ by the critic Louis Vaucelles in describing paintings exhibited in Paris by Georges Braque in November 1908; it is more generally applied not only to work of the period by Braque and Pablo Picasso but also to a range of art produced in France during the later 1900's, the 1910's and the early 1920's and the variants developed in other countries...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire et théorie de l'art
  • Peinture (Arts)
DEF

École de peintre florissante de 1910-1930, qui se proposait de représenter les objets décomposés en éléments géométriques simples (rappelant le cube) sans restituer leur perspective.

OBS

Le mot cubisme désigne la révolution esthétique qui s'est accomplie, en peinture et aussi en sculpture, de 1907 à 1914 [...]. Le critique Louis Vaucelles reprit ensuite ce mot dans le Gil Blas du 14 novembre 1908, à propos de la première exposition de Braque [...] et lança le terme cubisme. Cependant, les créateurs du mouvement ne l'acceptèrent que malgré eux : «Quand nous avons fait du cubisme, a déclaré Picasso, nous n'avions aucune intention de faire du cubisme».

Spanish

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Record 12 1999-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
DEF

In WUSOR-II(Carr and Goldstein, 1977), a student model that compares the student's behavior with the expert's. The student's state of knowledge is viewed as a subset of the expert's knowledge : hence the term "overlay". The overlay model has a single critic that determines when an individual skill can be considered as acquired.

CONT

The overlay model will fail if the domain allows for multiple problem-solving paradigms and if the student follows one that the expert is not programmed to know, possibly making good moves that the expert system would consider non-optimal. Dealing with multiple paradigms would require a "meta-expert" - a set of different experts among which the system would choose the appropriate model.

CONT

... an overlay model specifies which portion, and thereby ... which knowledge units the student still needs to learn.

OBS

[The overlay model] has a serious restriction on the modeling capability, since it cannot represent the student’s incorrect knowledge.

OBS

TPart of the model is overlay-like (the model includes that part of the student’s knowledge which overlaps with the knowledge of the system): it contains the proof of the current stage of achievement, together with the student’s plan.

Key term(s)
  • overlay-like model

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
DEF

Image des connaissances de l'apprenant vues comme un sous-ensemble de la base de connaissances du module expert. Elle reproduit fidèlement les concepts maîtrisés, les chemins empruntés dans le réseau pour les découvrir et l'historique de l'enseignement.

OBS

Notion introduite par B. Carr et I. Goldstein en 1977 et adoptée depuis 1980 dans la construction du système Sophie. Plus récemment, on considère que les connaissances de l'apprenant comprennent surtout des connaissances (incorrectes) autre que celles de l'expert.

OBS

La plupart des systèmes d'EIAO considèrent l'état des connaissances de l'élève donne un sous-ensemble des connaissances de l'expert.

Spanish

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Record 13 1998-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sexology
  • Sociology of Human Relations
DEF

conventional sex (George Kirgo’s own definition); non-transgressive sex.

CONT

The taboos are off for everything. The last to go were incest and homosexuality, moans George Kirgo, a Hollywood screenwriter and TV critic who coined the word "outcest" for conventional sex.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sexologie
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
OBS

Créé comme antonyme du mot "inceste".

Spanish

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Record 14 1994-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
DEF

A cognitive device in learning and diagnosis (ODYSSEUS).

CONT

The selection of a particular strategy is based on the information provided ... by the performance evaluator which gives a historical view concerning how well the student has mastered the relevant concepts.

CONT

The elements are the forward transfer element(FIE), the performance evaluation element or critic(PEEL) the system parameter transformation element, and the input and output functions.... The nature of the performance evaluation(PEEL) determines the character of the system as it contains the goal orientation of the system... The PEEL is then said to contain the goals and constraints of the system's operation and it maps the input and output functions into a set of measures Z, which indicate the performance of the system.

OBS

The PEEL or critic is often called the teacher as its function is to provide an input to the system that tells it whether its behaviour is proper or not.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
OBS

Voir "pédagogue".

Spanish

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Record 15 1994-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
  • Sociology (General)
DEF

critic of the U. S.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts
  • Sociologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 16 1991-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Press (News and Journalism)
  • Culinary Techniques
OBS

critic :... a person whose profession is to write such judgments of books, music, paintings, sculpture, plays, motion pictures, television, etc., as for newspaper or magazine.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Presse écrite
  • Techniques culinaires
CONT

Les guides et les critiques gastronomiques, traits d'union nécessaires entre clients et restaurateurs, demeurent les moyens les moins onéreux de se faire connaître(...) Cela veut dire que toutes les formes de restauration sont concernées par la chronique gastronomique(...)

Spanish

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Record 17 1981-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Educational Institutions
OBS

A teacher who also directs the work of one or more student teachers. Also referred to as co-operating teacher, critic teacher or co-operating school supervising teacher.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Établissements d'enseignement
OBS

Professeur qui dirige le travail d'un ou de plusieurs élèves-professeurs. Ce terme désigne aussi les maîtres auxiliaires, les maîtres moniteurs et les maîtres superviseurs auxiliaires.

Spanish

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Record 18 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
OBS

actually,--was not a school(...) And its birth was(...) due to(...) the brainchild of a French critic.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)
OBS

l'article de Collet eut un tel retentissement (...) que --était constitué (...) Ce groupe n'avait à son origine d'autre but qu'un groupement d'amitiés et non de tendances.

Spanish

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