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He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s.
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( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.
This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.
Most of them sincerely believe that the Anglo-Saxon is the best race in the world and that it should remain pure.
The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.
And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.
Here, on a desk, is a stack of pamphlets representing the efforts of some of the best men of the day to penetrate these questions.
She was exposing herself to temptation which it is best to avoid where it can consistently be done.
Hammarskjold's supposed desire to seek outside legal advice in the guise of Ernest Gross is illusion, at best.
Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.
A truism is that the time to prepare for the worst is when times are best.
If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.
Of the three volumes, Blenheim is easily the best.
Next best to destroying an army is to deprive it of its freedom of action.
His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.
Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.
If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.
We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.
Considering what is being done compared to what needs to be done, it behooves the hospital management to do some mighty careful planning toward making the best possible use of the increase granted.
Probably the best answer to this kind of entering wedge is congressional action requiring the Federal Communications Commission to ban such advertising through its licensing power.
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An order can be chanced rather than chosen, and this approach produces an experience that is `` free and discovered rather than bound and remembered ''.
By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.
It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.
Again Reverend Corder saved the bridge when Union soldiers planned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with hay and straw -- but for what reason is not recorded nor remembered, certainly not because of pressure from an opposing Confederate force.
It must be remembered, however, that there are many agents for which there is no solid immunity and a partial or low-grade immunity may be broken by an appropriate dose of agent.
This is obvious when it is remembered that, during childbirth, the vagina must dilate enough to permit the passage of the baby.
Where there is a left-hand entry in the ledger, there is a right-hand one, he remembered from his school days.
Jean-Marie LeClair still is remembered a bit, but Bodin De Beismortier, Corrette and Mondonville are hardly household words.
He is remembered for developing the theory of general semantics.
Korzybski is remembered as the author of the dictum: " The map is not the territory ".
While 2 November remained the liturgical celebration, in time the entire month of November became associated in the Western Catholic tradition with prayer for the departed ; lists of names of those to be remembered being placed in the proximity of the altar on which the sacrifice of the mass is offered.
Although Doubleday achieved minor fame as a competent combat general with experience in many important Civil War battles, he is more widely remembered as the supposed inventor of the game of baseball, in Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.
Ashoka is remembered in history as a philanthropic administrator.
Today Ahmed I is remembered mainly for the construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque ( also known as the Blue Mosque ), one of the masterpieces of Islamic architecture.
He is the cousin of Achilles, the most remembered Greek warrior, and is the elder half-brother of Teucer.
As king, Afonso IV is remembered as a soldier and a valiant general, hence the nickname the Brave.
For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
This is how the things were remembered.
Johnny Appleseed is remembered in American popular culture by his traveling song or Swedenborgian hymn (" The Lord is good to me ..."), which is today sung before meals in some American households.
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In a career spanning over 40 years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films, including such box office successes as the horror film Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible.
The psychic thriller Carrie is seen by some as De Palma's bid for a blockbuster.
His recent work, the thriller A History of Violence ( 2005 ), is one of his highest budgeted and most accessible to date.
Ghajini is an Indian psychological thriller.
*" The Fan " ( 1977 ) by Bob Randall is a thriller in epistolary form.
Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic police thriller dealing with the exploits of the cyborg Motoko Kusanagi, a member of a covert operations division of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission known as Section 9.
Bug, a film directed by William Friedkin, is a psychological thriller filmed in 2005, starring Connick, Ashley Judd, and Michael Shannon.
House of Cards is a 1990 political thriller television drama serial by the BBC in four parts, set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The picture is a suspense thriller with Bogart intent on finding the real killer in a murder he was blamed for and sentenced to prison.
Their son Adam Bedi is an international model who recently made his Bollywood debut with the thriller, Hello?
The smuggling of Malevich paintings out of Russia is a key to the plot line of writer Martin Cruz Smith's thriller Red Square.
* I as in Icarus is a 1979 French conspiracy thriller with Yves Montand as an attorney investigating the assassination of the President.
While his direction of an ensemble cast and parallel fiction was recognized as astonishing in He is in the Army now ( 2002 ), his last film Shattered Soul ( 2005 ) has taken its well-earned place in Turkish Cinema History as being the first psychological thriller ever, and was awarded with a " Bronze Gryphone " at 2006 in International St. Petersburg Film Festival.
* The Oxfordian theory, among others, is discussed in Jennifer Lee Carrell's 2007 thriller Interred With Their Bones.
Original Sin is a 2001 erotic thriller film starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas.
This is especially manifest in " Un-man ", a future thriller where the Good Guys are agents of the UN Secretary General working to establish a world government while the Bad Guys are nationalists ( especially American nationalists ) who seek to preserve their respective nations ' sovereignty at all costs.
Polywater is the central idea of the 1972 espionage / thriller novel A Report from Group 17 by Robert C. O ' Brien.
" The Potter " is markedly different in tone from " The Monk ": whereas the earlier tale is " a thriller " the latter is more comic, its plot involving trickery and cunning rather than straightforward force.
He also wrote historical fiction as Reagan O ' Neal, a western as Jackson O ' Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang Lung, and he had ghostwritten an " international thriller " that is still believed to have been written by someone else.
The French political thriller I ... comme Icare includes a key scene where Milgram's experiment on obedience to authority is explained and shown.
As a genre, spy fiction is thematically related to the novel of adventure ( The Prisoner of Zenda, 1894, The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1905 ), the thriller ( such as the works of Edgar Wallace ) and the politico – military thriller ( The Schirmer Inheritance, 1953, The Quiet American, 1955 ).
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