In his New York Times review of the 2009 Broadway production, Ben Brantley noted that " the expression that hovers over Trevor Nunn's revival ... feels dangerously close to a smirk ... It is a smirk shrouded in shadows.

Ben Brantley of The New York Times called it " a half-terrific revival of Mr. Stoppard's entirely terrific Arcadia ", noting that " several central roles are slightly miscast ", and " some of the performances from the Anglo-American cast are pitched to the point of incoherence.

In his review, New York Times critic Ben Brantley commented, “ her every stage appearance is perceived as a victory of show-business stamina over psychic frailty.

The New York Times Ben Brantley called his performance " the most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting.

" Ben Brantley of the New York Times reported that Hawke's interpretation of Hotspur was " too contemporary for some tastes.

New York Times critic Ben Brantley praised Hawke's performance as the central character Eddie, reporting that " he captures with merciless precision the sense of a sharp mind turning flaccid ".

In his review for the New York Times, Ben Brantley noted the production's " scary, splendid clarity ", and praised Hawke for providing his cast " with a mood-stirring mise-en-scène " and, moreover, for eliciting a performance that " connoisseurs of precision acting will be savoring for years to come ".

Ben Brantley in his New York Times review wrote, " Working against type and expectation under the direction of Sam Mendes, Ms. Peters has created the most complex and compelling portrait of her long career, and she has done this in ways that deviate radically from the Merman blueprint.

Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote: " Ms. Gyllenhaal provides the essential bridge between the parts of the play's title.

Reviewing the production in the New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote that "... in his art as in his life, Williams could be grotesquely excessive and sloppy.

In his review in The New York Times, Ben Brantley called it a " deeply felt revival " and a " revitalizing production of a play often dismissed as a soggy period piece " and added, " Ms. Merkerson allows a kind of intimate access traditionally afforded by cinematic close-ups, when the camera finds shades of meaning in impassive faces.

Untrained in song and dance, she still impressed New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley, who wrote: " Ms. Griffith is a sensational Roxie, possibly the most convincing I have seen " and " vultures who were expecting to see Ms. Griffith stumble ... will have to look elsewhere ".

* Brantley, Ben.

Lea Delaria's performance as Hildy the taxi driver ( and especially her all-stops-out rendition of " I Can Cook, Too ") won wide praise, with Ben Brantley writing " Working through the saucy double-entendres and scat embellishments of I Can Cook Too, Hildy's mating call of a solo, Ms. DeLaria makes an obliging captive of anyone watching her.

New York Times contributor Ben Brantley, in review of the production, wrote: " Playing a thoughtless, woman-despising heterosexual, Mr. McCormack isn't much different from when he was playing a thoughtful, woman-worshiping homosexual.

In his rave review in The New York Times, Ben Brantley called Ruehl's performance " masterly ".

New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley called it a "... savvy, sassy and eminently likable ... breakthrough musical ", and compared its potential long-term influence to West Side Story and The King and I.

Allman, Lynn Herschberg, James Kaplan, Peter J. Boyer, John Richardson, James Atlas, Alex Shoumatoff and Ben Brantley.

Ben Brantley of the New York Times recalled: " Its book was strained and muddled, most critics agreed ; its big production numbers were simply cumbersome.

" production for The New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote that, despite its famous creators, " the show still has the incomplete feeling of a work that never quite meets its own aspirations ... A tale of buffoonish gangsters trying to muscle in on the music industry.

Ben Brantley of The New York Times panned the show, calling it an " indisputably bogus show ", but praised Jackman's performance.

Says New York Times critic Ben Brantley, “ I found myself holding on to what these actors had to say as if I were a 5-year-old at bedtime being introduced to ‘ The Arabian Nights .’”

) The production on Broadway received some rave reviews including such statements as " McPherson is quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation " from Ben Brantley at the New York Times and " Succinct, startling and eerie, and the funniest McPherson play to date " from the Observer.

" — Ben Brantley, New York Times ;

In Ben Gurion: A Political Life by Peres and David Landau, former editor in chief of Haaretz newspaper, Peres describes himself as a " Ben-Gurionist.

Virgil had been appointed Tombstone's town marshal ( i. e., chief of police ) on June 6, 1881, after Ben Sippy abandoned the job.

In Ben Gurion: A Political Life by Peres and David Landau, former editor in chief of Haaretz newspaper, Shimon Peres recalls his first meeting with Ben-Gurion as a young activist in the No ' ar Ha ' Oved youth movement.

In legend and medieval Welsh poetry, he is often referred to as Taliesin Ben Beirdd (" Taliesin, Chief of Bards " or chief of poets ).

Following the Battle of Washita River in November 1868, Custer was alleged ( by Captain Frederick Benteen, chief of scouts Ben Clark, and Cheyenne oral tradition ) to have unofficially " married " Mo-nah-se-tah, daughter of the Cheyenne chief Little Rock in the winter or early spring of 1868 – 1869.

In Mainz, one Jewish woman killed her children rather than see them killed ; the chief rabbi, Kalonymus Ben Meshullam, committed suicide in anticipation of being killed.

In 1924, then Deputy Marshal Ben Parker was appointed the Cities first police chief.

The amiable Uncle Ben is laid off from his job as a chief electrician after 35 years and worries about his nephew's strange behavior.

Other residents include Sean Payton, Mark Teixeira, Vernon Wells, professional golfers Choi Kyung-Ju and Ben Crane, Terry Bradshaw, the former chief of Exxon, Lee Raymond, former FOX News Host and Radio Commentator Glenn Beck, and Matthew K. Rose.

The only survivor is a boy named Quinn Abercromby ( Ben Thornton ) whose mother, Karen ( Alice Krige ), was crew chief on the project.

However, when David Ben Gurion declared independence for the State of Israel, the chief rabbi gathered the entire Roman Jewish community by the arch and in solemn procession, walked the opposite way under the arch to symbolise the return to Jerusalem and Israel.

Under the new constitution, Ben Bella as president combined the functions of chief of state and head of government with that of supreme commander of the armed forces.

Ait Ahmed was later succeeded as chief of the OS by Ahmed Ben Bella, one of the early Algerian nationalist leaders.

On Wednesday morning, November 18, 1953, about a week before Thanksgiving, a group from the SO Division, including Vincent Ruwet, chief of the division, John Schwab, Frank Olson, Ben Wilson, Gerald Yonetz, and John Malinowski, drove out to the retreat ... The Detrick group was met at the lodge by Sid Gottlieb, his deputy Robert Lashbrook, and a couple of others from the CIA .... On the second day of the retreat, after dinner, Gottlieb spiked a bottle of Cointreau with a small quantity of a substance that he and his TSS colleagues privately referred to as " serunin " but which was in fact lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD.

Finally, Ben Ali was singled out as possible replacement for Bourguiba: as chief of the Tunisian secret services and as Minister of the Interior, he had opposed plans to execute Islamic fundamentalists.

The area has been inhabited since stone age times and there are many places of historic interest ; one of the most interesting but only for the serious walker is " Carn Righ ", on the northmost tip of Ben Spionnaidh, which is a manmade cairn celebrating a long dead petty king or chief from the area, whether Pict or Viking now unknown ; but the reason for the site chosen is clear as the site overlooks all his lands.

Stone then performed on a charity show, where she drew the attention of the Boilerhouse Boys, composed of London-based producers Andy Dean and Ben Wolfe, who contacted S-Curve Records founder and chief executive officer Steve Greenberg in December 2001 telling him that " they had just heard the greatest singer they'd ever heard from their country.

Ben Thompson, best known as a gunfighter and gambler, was a very successful chief of police in Austin, Texas.

This later caused controversy ; on 9 August Ben Summerskill, the chief executive of Stonewall, criticised Helmer, saying " If Mr Helmer thinks that homophobia doesn't exist in modern Britain, then perhaps he should be introduced to the families of Michael Causer and Jody Dobrowski.

* Ben Bagdikian – ( born 1920 ) former editor in chief of Washington Post

Christopher Hitchens, introducing the 2000 Penguin Classics edition of Scoop, said " n the pages of Scoop we encounter Waugh at the mid-season point of his perfect pitch ; youthful and limber and light as a feather ", and noted: " The manners and mores of the press, are the recurrent motif of the book and the chief reason for its enduring magic ... this world of callousness and vulgarity and philistinism ... Scoop endures because it is a novel of pitiless realism ; the mirror of satire held up to catch the Caliban of the press corps, as no other narrative has ever done save Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's The Front Page.

His replacement as chief military observer was former second-in-command Colonel Ben Matiwaza of Zimbabwe, and later Colonel Asrarul Haque of Bangladesh.

The Private Eye < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s early contributors included Ben Fulton ( who served as editor in chief until spring 2007 ), Christopher Smart ( currently a reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune ), Mary Dickson, Katharine Biele, Lynn Packer, and notable Utah defense attorney Ron Yengich.