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In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

Hank Stuever

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Hank Stuever
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 1
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We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and we tried for a couple of days to fill it out (I of course treated it like we'd been asked to write a new book of the Bible), but we got really bored with it and gave it up.
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My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.
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