After spurning the Devils to sign with the Rangers before last season, center Bobby Holik quickly became his new team's most outspoken in-house critic.

He began his career at Home Box Office in the 1980s, working as a Film Evaluator or in-house critic.

But he figures that if ever the party needs in-house critics, it's now.

The news media have in turn shown themselves to be responsive to outside criticism; nearly 50 American newspapers have ombudsmen or reader representatives who serve as in-house critics.

Her husband's entire research staff, in-house critic and social director for most of the year, in France she is also a working author in her own right.

Edward H. Fleischman, the senior commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission and its most vocal in-house critic, abruptly resigned today.

His most severe in-house critic is widely believed to be Richard Zeckhauser, who has lately taken over from Schelling as the microeconomists' point man.

The agency's senior commissioner and its most vocal in-house critic, he cited frustrations over his limited impact and many sharp disagreements with the chairman, Richard Breeden.

Often, centrist Democrats thrived as in-house critics of their own party.

The same question can well be asked of news ombudsmen - those independent, in-house critics and mediators between the public and the news organisation.