Marlon Brando in Casablanca?.
"He's another putz."
Danny DeVito?
"He's the biggest putz of them all."
LITERARY criticism is a serious business, and it is growing ever more popular in academia. But its drawbacks are obvious. With all of the technical readings, the jargon and the warring factions of the "traditional" anti-traditional critics, Albertism might have a chance to survive. Besides, the condominium complex in South Florida where it all began is a lot more appealing than New Haven, where most of the other literary critics settle.
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All we need to do is turn off the TV sets and stick books in the hands of our senior citizens and Albertism could be the driving critical force of the 1990s. That is, if people can remember it.