The Washington Post staff writer Hal Hinson would disparagingly comment in an aside during a review of Jarmusch's Mystery Train ( 1989 ) that in the director's debut, " the only talent he demonstrated was for collecting egregiously untalented actors ".

Her performance won her widespread acclaim ; Hal Hinson of the Washington Post saw Pfeiffer's role as " the least obvious and the most difficult.

However, Hal Hinson of the Washington Post criticized it as “ woefully short on originality .”

" Hal Hinson in the Washington Post wrote that the film's " wit and immediacy is extraordinarily rare in a period film.

Hal Hinson, in his review for The Washington Post, praised Sandra Bullock's performance: " The only performer to stand out is Sandra Bullock as Annie ...

Hal Hinson, in his review for The Washington Post, wrote, " Brooks is excellent at taking us inside the world of television, but not terribly good at analyzing it.

" Critic Hal Hinson commented that Meyer " capable of sending up his material without cheapening it or disrupting our belief in the reality of his yarn ," and called the one-liners an organic part of the film's " jocular, tongue-in-cheek spirit ".

In his review for the Washington Post, Hal Hinson had a mixed reaction to Myers ' performance: " Everything he does is charmingly lightweight and disposable and reasonably impossible to resist.

Commenting on his work with regard to Ishtar, Hal Hinson in the Washington Post observed: " Grodin has a one-of-a-kind quality on the screen, a sort of inspired spinelessness.

In his review for the Washington Post, Hal Hinson wrote, " As its stars, Miller and Jolie seem just as one-dimensional — except that, in their case, the effect is intentional ".

Hal Hinson, writing for the Washington Post, noted " Dugan has a brisk, imaginative comic style ; he sets up his gags well, so that there's still some surprise in the punch lines when they come.

Hal Hinson writing in The Washington Post gave the film a lukewarm review and said " The punk jaggedness they bring to their derivations is the only hint of originality, but this, too, seems a little staid.

" In his review for The Washington Post, Hal Hinson wrote " A lot of what Bigelow puts up on the screen bypasses the brain altogether, plugging directly into our viscera, our gut.

In his review for the Washington Post, Hal Hinson wrote, " This is a work of scatterbrained originality, funny, unexpected and ceaselessly engaging ".

" Hal Hinson, in his review for the Washington Post, wrote, " The action is so gratuitous, and so indifferently presented, that it's impossible to think that Cox ever truly intended it to be seen by anyone outside of the cast and crew and their immediate families.

The Washington Post reviewer Hal Hinson wondered " whether Kim Basinger is more obnoxious as a cartoon or as a real person ," and felt that the combination of animation and live action was unconvincing.

Hal Hinson in the Washington Post wrote: " In its own delightfully peculiar way, the film is the only one of its kind ever made-a horror film about office politics ...

In his review in The Washington Post, Hal Hinson called the film " a mesmerizing poetic work composed in an eerie minor key.

In his review in the Washington Post, Hal Hinson called the film a " beautiful balance of elements ... mellow, harmonious and poignantly funny.

Desson Thompson and Hal Hinson, both writers from the Washington Post, agreed that the film was " a one-joke film.

Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote that Coppola's segment was " by far the director's worst work yet.

Hal Hinson of The Washington Post was less forgiving: he called the ideas presented by the film " warmed-over D. H. Lawrence " and the film, a " peculiar, not entirely undesirable sort of art-house hybrid, like a marriage between Masterpiece Theatre and Baywatch ", citing " scenes, like the one in which Estella is brought to orgasm by the tender, knowing hands of a blind laborer, are almost laughable.

Hal Hinson wrote in The Washington Post that " the film comes with a built-in problem.

While The Washington Post writer Hal Hinson characterized it as " a carefully crafted, unapologetically literary accomplishment ", he suggested that Sayles ' " directing style hasn't grown much beyond that of a first-year film student ", declaring that the director was " stagnant ".

* Hal Williams appears as one of the movers in a first season episode ; James ' friend, Willie Washington, in a second season episode ; and Mr. Mitchell, the father of Earl Mitchell, who was an art student of J. J .' s

These networks were run by people with well-known liberal but pro-American big business and anti-Soviet views such as William Paley ( CBS ), Henry Luce ( Time and Life Magazine ), Arthur Hays Sulzberger ( New York Times ), Alfred Friendly ( managing editor of the Washington Post ), Jerry O ' Leary ( Washington Star ), Hal Hendrix ( Miami News ), Barry Bingham, Sr. ( Louisville Courier-Journal ), James Copley ( Copley News Services ) and Joseph Harrison ( Christian Science Monitor ).

On November 2, 2007, the Washington Post reported that between 2002 and the date of their report, former chairman Hal Stratton and current commissioner and former acting chairman Nancy Nord had taken more than 30 trips paid for by manufacturing groups or lobbyists representing industries that are under the supervision of the agency.

Music Journalist Hal Horowitz wrote: " These songs aren ’ t as loud or frantic as those of her late 70s heyday, but they resonate just as boldly as she moans, chants, speaks and spits out lyrics with the grace and determination of Mohammad Ali in his prime.

Hired by Hal Roach in 1923, McCarey initially wrote gags for the Our Gang series and other studio stars, then produced and directed shorts, including two-reelers with Charley Chase.

He wrote a book of original exercises and etudes for jazz musicians, published later by Hal Leonard.

In 1992 Hal wrote We Were Soldiers Once … And Young with co-author Joseph L. Galloway.

In 1972, Burt Bacharach and Hal David scored and wrote the tunes for the motion picture Lost Horizon.

The show's music director was Hal Yoergler, who also wrote many of the show's songs and produced the album, The Bugaloos, released in 1970.

Burt Bacharach and Hal David later wrote a song based upon the plotline of the movie and called " The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ", which became a Top 10 hit for Gene Pitney but was not used in the film.

Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote the scores and the title songs for both films.

" Lt. General Hal Moore later wrote that it was during his time in Vietnam that Schwarzkopf acquired what later became his infamous temper, while arguing via radio for passing American Hueys to land and pick up his wounded men.

Cleveland sportswriter Hal Lebovitz wrote, " Garcia, until the day he died, would tell me how much of the success he owed to Harder.

More recently he wrote the drama series Marking Time, which examines contemporary racial and cultural tensions in Australian society, seen through the prism of an Australian country town and focusing on the relationship between two teenagers — an Anglo Celtic Australian boy named Hal and a Muslim immigrant girl named Randa.

In 1976, after a conversation with Hal Prince, who had the theatrical rights to Sunset, Lloyd Webber wrote " an idea for the moment when Norma Desmond returns to Paramount Studios "; Lloyd Webber did no further work on the play until after 1989's Aspects of Love.

Following the first issue, Straczynski wrote team-ups between: Barry Allen and Blackhawk ; the Joker and the Atom ; Hal Jordan and Doctor Fate ; Batman and Brother Power ; Aquaman and Etrigan ; and Barbara Gordon, Wonder Woman, and Zatanna, one that served as a companion piece to Alan Moore's Batman: The Killing Joke graphic novel.

He associated her with writers such as Patrick White and Hal Porter who wrote " poetic prose ... an important but by no means popular dimension to Australian fiction ".

In 1965, Australian writer Hal Porter wrote of having met and stayed with Slessor in the 1930s.