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DeLillo's epic of Cold War America--which juxtaposes Russia's atomic bomb with Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World, a Lenny Bruce concert, and a lost Sergei Eisenstein film--is pronounced a "masterwork" (Tom LeClair, the Atlantic Monthly ). DeLillo wins praise for his witty prose and inventive historical fiction, which includes such postwar celebrities as Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover.
Farther up and across the street, at Number 92, is Casa Milà (1905–1910), Gaudí’s masterwork.
Male critics cringe at Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady ; female critics call it her masterwork.
Maslin gives no indication she thinks the film is a masterwork of any kind.
Would I welcome The Truman Show for what it is--a sharp-witted, visually layered, gorgeously designed, meticulously directed piece of formula pablum--if I hadn't been bludgeoned by pre-emptive raves in Esquire , Time , Entertainment Weekly , and the New York Times that proclaim it some sort of subversive postmodern masterwork?