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Whitehill arrested him twice, both times for theft in Silver City, and would later claim that Bonney was a likeable kid, whose stealing was a result more of necessity than criminality.
His pioneering work in framing national campaign issues and making the stiff Nixon more likeable and accessible to voters was chronicled in The Selling of the President 1968 by Joe McGinniss.
Like many of Stevenson's characters, there is more than a modicum of duality in the character ; ostensibly Silver is a hardworking and likeable seaman, and it is only as the plot unfolds that his villainous nature is gradually revealed.
It seems to have a favorable influence upon others and makes one likeable and more approachable.
Jordan Hoffman of Film. com thought that Farrell was " likeable " and both Ebert and the New York Times opined that though they believed Farrell was the better actor, that Schwarzenegger was " more of a movie presence and better suited for the role.
This scene appealed more to readers than the rest of the work, and as Turpin was depicted as a likeable character who made the life of a criminal seem appealing, the story came to form part of the modern legend surrounding Turpin.
The propinquity effect is usually explained by the mere exposure effect, which holds that the more exposure a stimulus gets, the more likeable it becomes.
The results indicated that the 9 hours of sensitivity training increased the exposure of students in the same group to each other, and thus they became more likeable to each other.
There are some exceptions to this rule ( see below ) but for the most part members are discouraged from " shopping " for a different ward that is more convenient for them, or that has one where they might attend with friends or relatives, or that has a more likeable leader.
Variety called it " a zany little film that's a startling and clever debut ", while Empire calls it " A fair bet for cultdom, a lot more likeable than its subject matter suggests, and simply essential viewing for vegetarians ".
The site's general consensus is: " Though Home on the Range is likeable and may keep young children diverted, it's one of Disney's more middling titles, with garish visuals and a dull plot ".
The " straight man " to Rex-and, increasingly, Moser-Ernst Stockinger (" Stocki " for short ) is a character who becomes much more likeable as his part in the series develops.
Douglas Wolk of Blender had rated it more highly than Here Come the Warm Jets, calling it " more immediately likeable ".
However this incarnation of Vandal Savage is less a threatening, scheming villain and more a likeable, roguish thug, still a force to be reckoned with but bound to a deep-seated respect for " his fellow immortals " Etrigan and Madame Xanadu, even taking a place among the assembled heroes.
In studies of interpersonal attraction, the more often a person is seen by someone, the more pleasing and likeable that person appears to be.
A study revealed that students who rated a professor as highly likeable from only a two-second first impression found the class much more enjoyable throughout the semester versus the students who did not .”
Recognizing the need to fulfill the role as a General, Davis still tried to " bring a few levels to him that show some understanding and that make him a little more likeable.
) Gary Oldman played the part of Dr. Smith in the film, but as a more genuinely menacing and less likeable character than Harris ' on TV.
Novak recalls Gervais and Merchant saying that they deliberately altered Brent to become more of a " buffoon " in the second series, and thus more likeable.

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As with the penultimate Giselle release ( Wolff's abridgment for RCA Victor ) I find the cleaner, less razor-edged monophonic version, for all its lack of big-stage spaciousness, the more aurally tolerable -- but this may be the result of processing defects in my SD copies.
Designers and manufacturers have produced models for purchasers who run the gamut from a nautical version of the elderly Pasadena lady who never drove more than five miles an hour on her once-a-month ride around the block, to the sportiest boatman who insists on all the dash, color, flair and speed possible to encompass in a single boat.
This call is modified to a quieter courtship call on the approach of a female or to a more aggressive version if a male intruder draws near.
The following is a more subtle version of the fallacy embedded into conversation.
At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.
A slightly more accurate compensated version performs the full naive algorithm on the residuals.
Excell's version was more palatable for a growing urban middle class and arranged for larger church choirs.
It typically uses more soy sauce than the mainland version.
* Moo shu pork – The native Chinese version uses more typically Chinese ingredients ( including wood ear fungi and daylily buds ) and thin flour pancakes while the American version uses vegetables more familiar to Americans and thicker pancakes.
Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a series of resolutions, the Compromise of 1850, to allow admission while addressing concerns of both sides of the issue ; at the same time Johnson introduced a similar more streamlined version of compromise in the House.
Lacaille and Johann Bode each depicted Antlia differently, as either the single-cylinder vacuum pump used in Papin's initial experiments, or the more advanced double-cylinder version.
The version of Acts preserved in the Western manuscripts contains about 10 % more content than the Alexandrian version of Acts.
An early theory, suggested by Swiss theologian Jean LeClerc in the 17th century, posits that the longer Western version was a first draft, while the Alexandrian version represents a more polished revision by the same author.
In many ways, Phase II can be considered an effort to make the earlier version ( never called Phase I ) more generic.
Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.
Based on a newer, slightly more flexible, version of the Asters original Motorola MC6845 video chip, the Rockwell 6545, it worked by adding a new video mode, one with the ability to reprogram an extended, ( 2048 characters instead of 256 characters ) version of the character set, supported by an extended character memory of the video card that did not use one ( 8 bit ) byte per character, but an 11 bit " word ", so it could address each one of the available 2048 unique programmable characters.
His version of Columbus ' life, published in 1829, was more a romance than a biography.
After the original version of AMOS, Europress released two other versions: Easy AMOS, a simpler version for beginners, and AMOS Professional, a more advanced version with added features, such as a better IDE, ARexx support, a new UI sublanguage and new flow control constructs.

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These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).
During the 1940s, Rank produced some of the finest films ever made in Great Britain, including: The Red Shoes, Hamlet, Henry V, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, The Rake's Progress, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and many more.
Powell and Pressburger would return to similar themes in the more controversial The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and A Canterbury Tale.

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Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
On the other hand, the women class members appeared to reach a far greater understanding than have women members in other sections that it is more natural for males as a group to view sex as sex rather than always associating it with love as most women seem to do.
Although she appeared more subdued and defeated, Jones knew she was growing more dangerous.
Miss Sutherland appeared almost as another person in this scene: A much more girlish Lucia, a sensational coloratura who ran across stage while singing, and an actress immersed in her role.
About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.
The mural around the wall depicted early settlers in covered wagons, who appeared much more animated than the gamblers.
While experimenting with the products of radioactive decay, in 1913 radiochemist Frederick Soddy discovered that there appeared to be more than one type of atom at each position on the periodic table.
On 2 September a more celebrated mock obituary, written by Reginald Brooks under the pseudonym " Bloobs ", appeared in The Sporting Times.
One study on respiratory tract infections found " physicians were more likely to prescribe antibiotics to patients who appeared to expect them ".
In particular, home versions of arcade games sometimes had problems with flickering and slow down when more than a few moving objects appeared on the screen at once.
These conclusions were, however, questioned by another review, which found that clozapine, amisulpride, and olanzapine and risperidone were more effective Clozapine has appeared to be more effective than other atypical antipsychotics, although it has previously been banned due to its potentially lethal side effects.
It is clear that using oxygen to completely oxidize glucose provides an organism with far more energy than any oxygen-independent metabolic feature, and this is thought to be the reason why complex life appeared only after Earth's atmosphere accumulated large amounts of oxygen.
Peach or plum flavoring appeared, then more fruit flavors were added until, in some variations, the tea was removed entirely in favor of real fruit.
) The tall, muscular actor won significant acclaim and appeared in two more films the following year.
They have a long history in Japanese folklore and art, and more recently have appeared in Japanese anime and manga ( see examples cited below ).
A necessity in a wolf-catching sighthound didn't exist, in addition to the old proved technique of batue with the use of baits, flags and other appeared new, way more effective — from airplanes, from propeller sleighs, with electronic lure whistles.
An early statement appeared in Discourse of the Common Wealth of this Realm of England, 1549: " We must always take heed that we buy no more from strangers than we sell them, for so should we impoverish ourselves and enrich them.
The more distant galaxies are being viewed as they appeared in the past, so their abundances of elements appear closer to the primordial mixture.
It has never become clear which painting appeared in the groundbreaking 1874 exhibition, though more recently the Moscow picture has been favoured.
Various paranormal interpretations appeared in the popular culture, and one of the more outspoken proponents of rods as alien life forms is Jose Escamilla, who claims to have been the first to film them on March 19, 1994 at Roswell, New Mexico, while attempting to film a UFO.
Researchers note that the students appeared to weigh multiple implications on the potential user, and explained their decisions more thoroughly than their peers.
For example, in the 19th century, the Sun appeared to be no more than 20 million years old, but the Earth appeared to be no less than 300 million years ( resolved by the discovery of nuclear fusion and radioactivity, and the theory of quantum mechanics ); or current attempts to resolve theoretical differences between quantum mechanics and general relativity.

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