Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

Brooks said that the style of his show was inspired mostly by Chris LeDoux.

Brooks fails to accurately assess French hip hop's larger scope, and discounts its potential for " rappers of amazing skill, style, and wit.

Among actresses closely identified with the style were Olive Borden, Olive Thomas, Dorothy Mackaill, Alice White, Bebe Daniels, Billie Dove, Helen Kane, Joan Crawford, Leatrice Joy, Norma Shearer, Laura La Plante, Norma Talmadge, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, and Colleen Moore.

Brooks recorded primarily in a honky-tonk style, although he frequently combined elements of soft rock and arena rock in his songs.

Andrus ' script " needed you to suspend disbelief " but Brooks realised " my style when directing is that I really don't know how to get people to suspend disbelief.

" Brooks directing style " drove cast bats ", especially Téa Leoni, with Cloris Leachman ( who replaced an ill Anne Bancroft a month into filming ) describing it as " free-falling.

Brooks wrote the book's foreword and has stated how he was always fond of her cooking style.

Brooks Brothers still produces this style of button-down " polo shirt ".

As he desired to exude a certain " WASPishness " in his clothes, initially adopting the style of clothiers like Brooks Brothers, J.

They often cited their Louise Brooks style bangs, which she loathed and had chopped off as soon as she left her acting career.

The Dallas Brooks Hall, one of Australia's finest examples of the " stripped classical " style, was completed in 1969 and has served as a major events venue for many years.

The Brooks Building in Chicago was built in 1909 – 1910 in the Chicago School architectural style.

Gluck, an English artist whom Brooks painted around 1923, was noted in the contemporary press as much for her style of dress as for her art.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks consider that the Ramist reform at least created a tension between the ornamented and the plain style ( of preachers and scientific scholars ), into the seventeenth century, and contributed to the emergence of the latter.

He began his career in the Chaotic Wrestling promotion, but was called on by the Inoki Dojo after they had seen a shoot style match between Wicks and John Brooks.

* 13 March 2000-Millewa State Forest Murders-Barbara and Stephen Brooks and Stacie Willoughby were found dead, all three having been shot execution style and left in the forest.

However, his career in New York was ended by a feud with Brooks ' successor Ted Sator who introduced a traditional North American dump-and-chase style of play.

Stasheff's writing is often seen in the moral and ethical mentor style similar to Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks or J. R. R.

The rapid-fire, Mel Brooks style of comedy was out of place on network television of the era, so despite critical acclaim, the series failed to find an audience and was canceled after 13 episodes.

Brooks ' style, sometimes described as " voodoo blues ", includes elements of Chicago blues, Louisiana blues, swamp pop and rhythm and blues.

Brooks Adams was consistent in his admonishments to historians about the necessary tools or insights they needed to possess.

In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

Mr. Brooks was born in New York, and came to Portland in 1920.

After a comparison of the substances half-lives determined by Debierne, Hariett Brooks in 1904, and Otto Hahn and Otto Sackur in 1905, Debierne's chosen name for the new element was retained because it had seniority.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

Brooks was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of Thelma Leeds ( née Goodman ), a singer and actress, and Harry Einstein, a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as Parkyakarkus.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

The film, in which Brooks obnoxiously films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBS's An American Family documentary.

Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, the film was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft.

Additionally, Brooks Robinson was named Most Valuable Player in 1964, just two years before the 1966 – 1983 golden era began.

The Government Department, whose prominent professors include Stephen Brooks, Richard Ned Lebow, and William Wohlforth, was ranked the top solely undergraduate political science program in the world by researchers at the London School of Economics in 2003.

CNN reported that " Brooks was joined on stage by two surprise guest stars, Billy Joel and Don McLean, who brought down the house with an acoustic rendition of ' American Pie '.

Others, such as Polly Schoyer Brooks ( the author of a non-academic biography of Eleanor ), suggest that the court did exist, but that it was not taken very seriously and that the acts of Courtly Love were just a “ parlor game ” made up by Eleanor and Marie in order to place some order over the young courtiers living there.

( One of her co-stars in that film was husband Brooks West.

Desilu Productions, jointly owned by Desi Arnaz and Ball during their marriage, was the production company for the Our Miss Brooks television show, which filmed during the same years as I Love Lucy.

Additionally, Brooks muses that " good " programmers are generally five to ten times as productive as mediocre ones.

Much of Brooks is being divided into small to lots ready for the construction of a generally nice homes.

The observatory makes prominent use of the slogan " Home of the World's Worst Weather ", a claim that originated with a 1940 article by Charles Brooks ( the man generally given the majority of credit for creating the Mount Washington Observatory ), titled " The Worst Weather In the World " ( even though the article concluded that Mt Washington most likely did not have the world's worst weather ).

And what Olasky meant by it was that McCain supporters generally, and Brooks specifically, are attracted to " Zeus-like strength " rather than Christ-like compassion.

From West Orange, the Second River passes generally easterly through the towns of Orange and East Orange, where it is joined by Wigwam, Parrow, and Nishuane Brooks, then turns slightly to the north ( though still generally easterly ), and enters the town of Bloomfield.

It flows initially north, then generally east through the foothills on the north side of the range, broadening as it receives the inflow of many tributaries that descend from the middle Brooks Range.

Through the middle of the twentieth century, when men generally wore full suits much more than now, " a Brooks Brothers suit " might even be mentioned to suggest the wearer's ordinariness.

In its modern, figurative sense, the " deus ex machina " brings about an ending to a narrative through unexpected ( generally happy ) resolution to what appears to be a problem that cannot be overcome ( see Mel Brooks ' History of the World, Part I ).

Regardless, the evidence supplied by Brooks points to the Bean farm being loosely within 30 miles southwest or generally east of Syracuse.

" Variety also negatively reviewed the film, saying that Brooks and Ritchie " never quite commit to either of the movie's disparate chords -- bailing out of the batter's box in terms of the psychological drama and, after some amusing moments at the outset, generally steering clear of broad comedy.