Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

Describing the work as " 57 seconds of growth and fire, and three seconds of vomit ", Lynch played the film on a loop at the Academy's annual end-of-year exhibit, where it shared joint first prize with a painting by Noel Mahaffey.

Describing itself as a " military force ", the Corps consists of 10 officers, 26 non-commissioned officers, and 99 other ranks-a total force of 135 military personnel ( there are also 25 civilian employees ).

Describing it as " cheap, grubby and out of control ", Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times declared that it " both defines and entirely supersedes the very notion of the exploitation picture ".

Describing the Bible as " fabulous mythology ", Paine questions whether or not it was revealed to its writers and doubts that the original writers can ever be known ( he dismisses the idea that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, for example ).

Describing himself as a " juvenile delinquent ", he noted that his father was a " bully " who would sternly punish him for his misbehaviour.

Describing his years there as the " ordeal ", he nevertheless excelled academically, particularly in the fields of philosophy, history and literature.

Describing himself as " servant to the king's majesty ", Holbein had made his will on 7 October at his home in Aldgate.

Describing it as " vicious " and " stupid ", Fussell called the final lines a " propaganda argument against a negotiated peace ".

Describing it as one of the " games that changed the world ", GamePro stated that E. T.

Describing itself as the friend of " The Honest Financier and the Respectable Broker ", it was a four-page journal.

Describing the tour, Stevens remarked that seeing a crowd of over 13, 000 fans each night coming to see them was " such an unbelievable feeling ", and the other members of the group shared an " adrenaline rush " as well as a wave of emotion before going on stage.

Describing himself as a " military brat ", Neal lived in many locations throughout the country ( most notably, in the small community of Thrall, Texas ).

Describing itself as " America's Pro-Israel Lobby ", AIPAC is a mass-membership, American organization whose members include Democrats, Republicans, and independents.

Describing himself as " probably the odd man out at that point ", he admitted he " didn ’ t participate as much because of that.

Describing " Sheridan's Ride ", published in 1891, as a " Scenes Historical ", Sousa musically characterized Sheridan's famous ride back to his army in the Battle of Cedar Creek.

Describing itself as " all lab, no lecture ", books in this series usually show specific tasks in detail.

Describing his younger self as being a " punk ", Oates said he partied frequently.

Describing the warrants as a " curse ", Al-Fayed claimed that business had tripled since their removal.

Describing it as " derogatory, indirect language ", Darrell Jodock states its intent is to " deny Israel any place in the family of nations ".

Edzard Lutz describes it as " the traditional Arabic political term for Israel ", stating it is used in Arabic ( particularly Iraqi ) international documents, Describing its use in Jordan, Joseph Nevo includes it as part of " Arab rhetoric and its traditional reluctance to use the term ' Israel '".

Describing the peak as " calico-colored ", the peak, the mountain range to which it belonged, and the town that followed were all called Calico.

Describing themselves as " Archaeologists of the Impossible ", Planetary is an organization intent on discovering the world's secret history.

Describing her childhood as a " conventional Christian upbringing ", Lawrence has stated she does not follow any particular religion and has no belief in a deity.

Describing his confirmation, when he as 12 year old, Padre Pio said that he " wept with consolation " whenever he thought of that day because " I remember what the Most Holy Spirit caused me to feel that day, a day unique and unforgettable in all my life!

Describing the fossils was a vast task, pursued by Walcott until his death in 1927.

Describing himself as non-religious and as accepting the concept of natural selection as a well-established fact, Stove nonetheless attacked what he described as flawed concepts proposed by some " Ultra-Darwinists ".

Describing the characteristic nature of International reality marked by ' anarchy ' he says, " Anarchy is what states make of it.

Describing such a transformation for an object tends to make more sense in terms of rotation about an axis through the center of that object, combined with a translation, rather than by just a rotation with respect to some distant point.

*:* Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flower — Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies, an 1884 book by John Wood.

Describing the origins of Hawkman, Fox recalled, " I was faced with the problem of filling a new book that publisher Max Gaines was starting ... As I sat by the window I noticed a bird collecting twigs for a nest.

Describing the gravel and sand knolls, “ Between Greenville and Richmond, along the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad, they are unusually clustered, and are worked by that company in many points ”.

Describing the cove in 1779, Adam Walker said, " This beautiful rock is like the age-tinted wall of a prodigious castle ; the stone is very white, and from the ledges hang various shrubs and vegetables, which with the tints given it by the bog water.

Now there are 48, in 42 states …” Describing one free market think tank founded by an alumnus of the Leadership Conference, DeParle said, “ No one is more central to this replicating effort than ( Mackinac Center President Mr. Lawrence ) Reed …”

* Descriptive ( or synchronic ) linguistics: Describing dialects ( forms of a language used by a specific speech community ).

Describing President Boris Yeltsin's performance as a " minus " overall, Lebed gained fame by suggesting that the country could use a military dictator like Augusto Pinochet.

Describing her method she said " We turn vision on by teaching the eyes to shift.

Describing the process, Huxley wrote that " Vision is not won by making an effort to get it: it comes to those who have learned to put their minds and eyes into a state of alert passivity, of dynamic relaxation.

Describing his approach to training, Cecil himself said: " I do everything by instinct really, not by the book.

Describing his post-calamity life, he claimed to be functioning permanently in what he called " the natural state ": A state of spontaneous, purely physical, sensory existence, characterized by discontinuity – though not absence – of thought.

Describing his childhood and teenage years as a “ horror story ” characterized by “ frequent parental physical and mental abuse, horrible breakups with girlfriends and consequent near nervous breakdowns ,” Arudou saw himself as a “ driven person — with the irrepressible urge to do whatever is necessary get as far away as possible as quickly as possible .” He attended Cornell University, first visiting Japan as a tourist on invitation from, his pen pal and future wife, for several weeks in 1986.

Describing species or subspecies, based on syntypes, in modern practice, is generally frowned upon by practicing taxonomists.

Describing his thoughts upon being informed by John Abizaid a few weeks after the leak that he and his report would be investigated, Taguba said " I ’ d been in the Army thirty-two years by then, and it was the first time that I thought I was in the Mafia.

Describing the organisation, Ding announced that the group were " a common group of citizens brought together by a shared fate and suffering ".

Describing current instructional methods as homogenization and lockstep standardization, alternative approaches are proposed, such as the Sudbury Model of Democratic Education schools, an alternative approach in which children, by enjoying personal freedom thus encouraged to exercise personal responsibility for their actions, learn at their own pace and style rather than following a compulsory and chronologically-based curriculum.

Describing current instructional methods as homogenization and lockstep standardization, alternative approaches are proposed, such as the Sudbury model schools, an alternative approach in which children, by enjoying personal freedom thus encouraged to exercise personal responsibility for their actions, learn at their own pace rather than following a chronologically-based curriculum.