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Boucher and finished
Gaetan Boucher's career coincided with that of Eric Heiden, and Boucher finished runner-up to Heiden in both the 1979 and 1980 World Sprint Championship.
Healy finished his ODI career with a world record 233 dismissals, a mark since overtaken by Gilchrist, Mark Boucher, Moin Khan and Kumar Sangakkara.
Boucher was re-elected and Arthur finished second, with 33 % of the vote.

Boucher and review
Boucher and McComas gave The Illustrated Man a mixed review, faulting the framing story as " markedly ineffective " and the story selection for seeming " less than wisely chosen.
Continuation Bond author Raymond Benson described Boucher's critique as " true to form " and " a tirade " as Boucher concluded his review by saying: " it is 80, 000 words long, with enough plot for 8, 000 and enough originality for 800.
Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher – described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson, as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man " – was damning in his review, saying that From Russia, with Love was Fleming's " longest and poorest book ".
" Boucher and McComas gave the collection a lukewarm review, describing it as " a hodgepodge " mixing " Grade A Sturgeon stories " with " a good many one can see no particular reason for collecting "; still, they concluded that Unicorn was " a book belonging in any fantasy library.
"-Anthony Boucher, New York Times book review, August 5, 1951.
" Caroline Boucher, writing in Disc magazine, awarded the album three stars out of four, while Lon Goddard's review in Record Mirror noted that the album showed The Byrds " slowly drifting away from the more apparent country influences that came to the fore with Sweetheart of the Rodeo and combining into a hybrid that features more of the approach utilised on their earlier albums.
In a review of the episode in The Observer, Caroline Boucher wrote: " My domestic Simpsons correspondent, Simon, reports a particularly fine episode, Marge in Chains to the extent that he watched the tape twice.

Boucher and they
Boucher said that the vibrations from a large Hobart electric mixer dislodged bars of Nestlé's chocolate stored on the shelf above the mixer so they fell into the sugar cookie dough it was mixing, then broke them up and mixed the pieces into it.
" Boucher went on to bemoan that although On Her Majesty's Secret Service was better than The Spy Who Loved Me, " it is still a lazy and inadequate story ", going on to say that " my complaint is not that the adventures of James Bond are bad literature ... but that they aren't good bad literature ".
In January 1946, Boucher and McComas went to New York and met with Spivak, who suggested they assemble the contents for a test issue.
What Boucher and McComas were striving to reach was a literary plateau far above the pulp plotlines and action-adventures many associated with the genre, and one way they achieved this was with a concentration on reprints.
He is engaged to alpine skier Sara-Maude Boucher and they have one child.
" In F & SF, Boucher and McComas selected the novel as one of the best sf books of 1953, describing it as " humanly convincing "; they praised the novel as " a solid and admirable story of small-scale human reactions to vast terror.
In the 18th century, as Chinese vases and other decorative objects began to arrive in Europe, there was a surge of popularity for Chinoiserie, The painters Watteau, and Francois Boucher painted Chinese scenes as they imagined them, and Catherine the Great decorated a room in her palace in the Chinese style.
Navigating the Bersimus River, they were attempting to reach Lake Boucher but were unable to portage around rapids.
In Colorado, they were originally named The Ravers, and their roadie, Eric Boucher, later became known as Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys.
Replaced with Jimmy Franks, Buzinski was sent to the Rangers ' AHL New Haven Eagles farm team on December 3 to practice with the club, with coach Frank Boucher saying, " If they think enough of him, he will get a chance to show what he can do in a regular game.
Boucher centered a line with the brothers Bill and Bun Cook, and together they helped the Rangers win the Stanley Cup in 1928 and 1933, also reaching the Finals in 1932.
The franchise would be in existence for 68 seasons before they won a Cup without Boucher being directly involved.
Marin Boucher and his family subsequently moved to the South Shore where they were pioneers of the town of Rivière-Ouelle.
In overtime, Frank Boucher got the winner for the Rangers and they carried Patrick, tears streaming down his eyes, off the ice.

Boucher and just
" Boucher and McComas named Farmer " just about the only mature science fiction novel of the year, describing it as " a magnificently detailed study of the technological and human problems of interplanetary colonization.
" Boucher and McComas, however, were disappointed by it, saying that while the stories it was based on were first-rate, the novel-length expansion had become " talkative, oversimplified, lacking in suspense or conflict, and, in short, just not adding up to an adequate novelistic treatment of a splendidly stated theme.
His second season came with just as much success, as Boucher notched 77 points in 65 games with Granby and the Laval Titan, once again being named a second-team All-Star.
Nevertheless, Moolah dropped the belt on September 17, 1966 to Betty Boucher, although she regained the title just weeks later.
" Anthony Boucher found that the novel's logical extrapolation was " not so much absurd as just absent.
Cotton states “ The dream of paradise, of a land of plenty, is a thread that runs through all of human history, not just in the affluent times but in fact very often in the lean as well .” He has also been inspired by painters Frederic Edwin Church, François Boucher and Fragonard, the photographer Carleton Watkins, as well as pin-up painters such as Gil Elvgren.

Boucher and writing
Robert R Kirsch, writing in the Los Angeles Times, also disagreed with Boucher, saying that " the espionage novel has been brought up to date by a superb practitioner of that nearly lost art: Ian Fleming.
Even the " avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man ", Anthony Boucher, writing for The New York Times appeared to enjoy Goldfinger, saying " the whole preposterous fantasy strikes me as highly entertaining.
Boucher and McComas, however, found it " competent enough writing and thinking, if on the dull side .".
A noted author himself, Boucher helped Porges get his work published, and during the 1950s influenced his writing style a great deal.
Boucher ( as he was more commonly known ) was admired for his mystery writing but was most noted for his editing, his science fiction anthologies, and his mystery reviews for many years in The New York Times.
Boucher was writing radio scripts in the late 1940s, but he left dramatic radio in 1948, as he explained to William F. Nolan, " mainly because I was putting in a lot of hours working with J. Francis McComas in creating what soon became The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
" Boucher and McComas praised the volume as " a high-water mark in science fiction writing ," adding " Here is a book that caused these reviewers to chuck objective detachment out the window and emit a loud, partisan ' Whee !'.".
Chris Boucher began his television writing career in comedy, working on such programmes as Dave Allen at Large and Romany Jones, before moving on to write for drama series, including Shoestring, Juliet Bravo and Bergerac.
Following Star Cops, Boucher went on to work as script editor on the long-running ITV police drama The Bill before returning to freelance writing while Gridneff moved on to work on the BBC drama series The House of Eliott.

Boucher and bad
In 1943 – 44 NHL season the New York Rangers were so bad that Boucher came out of retirement for 15 games to play where he recorded 14 points.

Boucher and books
The collection consists in approximatively 2, 000 paintings ( including pictures by Nicolas Poussin, Anthony Van Dyck, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert Robert and Ingres ), 600 pieces of decorative arts, 600 architectural elements, nearly 15, 000 medals, 3, 700 sculptures, 20, 000 drawings including works by Paolo Veronese, Primaticcio, Jacques Bellange, Michelangelo, Charles Le Brun, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, Dürer, Rembrandt, Ingres, François Boucher or Pierre Alechinsky, 45, 000 architectural drawings, 100, 000 etchings and engravings, 70, 000 photographs ( mainly form the period 1850-1914 ), 65, 000 books dating from the 15th to the 20th century ( 3, 500 for the 15th and 16th centuries ), and 1, 000 handwritten pieces of archive ( letters, inventories, notes ...) and also 390 important fragments or complete illuminated manuscripts.
Boucher and McComas selected the collection as one of the best sf books of 1953, praising the stories ' " humor, technical ideas, science-fictional thinking and all-around excellence.

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