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review and autobiography
Fonda's autobiography was well received by book critics, and was noted to be " as beguiling and as maddening as Jane Fonda herself " in its Washington Post review, pronouncing her a " beautiful bundle of contradictions ".
His later novels, including the Book of Bebb series and Godric, received hearty praise ; in his 1980 review of Godric, Benjamin DeMott summed up a host of positive reviews, saying “ All on his own, Mr. Buechner has managed to reinvent projects of self-purification and of faith as piquant matter for contemporary fiction, producing in a single decade a quintet of books each of which is individual in concerns and knowledge, and notable for literary finish .” In 1982, author Reynolds Price greeted Buechner ’ s The Sacred Journey as “ a rich new vein for Buechner – a kind of detective autobiographyand “ he result is a short but fascinating and, in its own terms, beautifully successful experiment .”
Bain's autobiography, published in 1904, contains a full list of his works, and also the history of the last thirteen years of his life by Professor W. L. Davidson of the University of Aberdeen, who further contributed to Mind ( April 1904 ) a review of Bain's services to philosophy.
* Colin McGinn in ZhurnalyWiki — a review of McGinn's autobiography.
* A review of Hennacy's autobiography: " The Book of Ammon "
* Jazz Script review of his autobiography
In a different review of the album, Morse called " Make It Happen " " glorious " and described it as " a clear slice of spiritual autobiography ".
In 2004 he released his autobiography, Right Back to the Beginning: The Autobiography, which was described in a book review in The Times as " Authoritative and engaging, but at the same time warm-hearted and kind, there is not a harsh word, and hardly a critical one, in it ".
: A scathing review of tennis star Tracy Austin's autobiography, extending into a general critique of the mass-produced ghostwritten sports autobiographies then flooding the market ( originally published in August 30, 1992 issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
From 1974 to the present, the review has had issues devoted to themes as diverse as the literature of war, literature of the British Commonwealth, the autobiography, travel, war, Henry James, Irish letters, Jane Austen, humor, and the Renaissance.

review and Sri
Mother India is the Sri Aurobindo Ashram's originally fortnightly, now monthly, cultural review.
* L. P. Jayatissa, F. Dahdouh-Guebas and N. Koedam, A review of the floral composition and distribution of mangroves in Sri Lanka.
* A review of Knox's Words, from the Sri Lankan newspaper Sunday Observer

review and cricket
An affectionate obituary tribute in The Guardian commented, " He loved cricket ... and played it ardently and very badly ", while in a review of Cricket Country, George Orwell described him as " the true cricketer ":
Doyle said, " Conversely, many European publishers feel that American critics are not qualified or properly situated to review football, rally, F1, cricket and rugby games.
This article is a review of the 1971-72 South African cricket season.

review and writer
Time magazine writer Richard Corliss was less scathing, but agreed that it was forgettable, saying that people would " forget all about movie by the time they leave the multiplex ," even joking at the end of his review that he had forgotten the film's name.
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 ".
In a 2001 review of Midas Dekkers ' Dearest Pet: On Bestiality, Singer argues that sexual activities between humans and animals that result in harm to the animal should remain illegal, but that " sex with animals does not always involve cruelty " and that " mutually satisfying activities " of a sexual nature may sometimes occur between humans and animals, and that writer Otto Soyka would condone such activities.
New York Times writer Peter Watrous declared in a concert review: " He has perfected an odd vision of popular music, one in which eccentricity and imagination beat back all the pressures toward conformity ".
In Roger Ebert's review of the 2004 movie Secret Window, he stated, " A lot of people were outraged that was honored at the National Book Awards, as if a popular writer could not be taken seriously.
James Berardinelli, in his review of the film, argues against the dream or fantasy interpretation, stating :" Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader append the perfect conclusion to Taxi Driver.
While his career as a critic and writer provided him with a comfortable income, and he had an obvious talent for writing, he came to detest the amount of time spent attending performances to review, as it severely limited his free time to promote his own composition and produce more compositions.
In 1853 it published an anonymous and unfavourable review of Charles Dickens ’ Bleak House, later revealed to be by George Brimley, typical of the paper's enduring contempt for him as a ‘ popular ’ writer " amusing the idle hours of the greatest number of readers ; not, we may hope, without improvement to their hearts, but certainly without profoundly affecting their intellects or deeply stirring their emotions.
Although the review in the New York Times called the film " the most brilliant picture yet this year " and praised Sturges's mix of escapist fun with underlying significance, the Hollywood Reporter said that it lacked the " down to earth quality and sincerity which made other three pictures a joy to behold " and that " Sturges ... fails to heed the message that writer Sturges proves in his script.
According to Holocaust writer Daniel Goldhagen's review of the book in The New Republic, most of the people working in these camps were not Jewish and Goldhagen argued Sack did his best to conceal this.
Although the review compared Fleming in unflattering terms to the crime fiction writer of the 1930s and 1940s, Peter Cheyney, it concluded that From Russia, with Love was " exciting enough of its kind.
" The New York Times, in its review of The Pebbled Shore, called Lady Longford " easily the best writer in what is predominantly a literary family ".
In 1974, W. D. Richter's wife read a review of Dirty Pictures from the Prom, the debut novel from Dartmouth College graduate and writer Earl Mac Rauch.
A ‘ middle-ground ’ review would probably be “ a poor attempt by a genuine writer to move into a medium that he simply hadn ’ t the flair or understanding of to make a success .” Beckett ’ s own opinion was that it was an “ interesting failure .”
In a review of a Whiteman jazz concert in New York, one writer said the music was expected to be pleasing, and " it proved so when it was repeated last night, in spite of the excessive instrumentation of Ferde Grofé.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1813 of neolgisms in a letter to John Waldo, the writer of a grammar submitted for Jefferson ’ s review:
The first stirrings of recognition came when indie writer Steve Lamacq referred to Ride in a review for the NME as " The House of Love with chainsaws ".
Peter Lamborn Wilson ( born 1945 ) ( pseudonym Hakim Bey ), is an American political writer, essayist, and poet, known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone ( TAZ ), based, in part, on a historical review of pirate utopias.
The New York Times review of the novel named Rand " a writer of great power " who writes " brilliantly, beautifully and bitterly ," and it stated that she had " written a hymn in praise of the individual ... you will not be able to read this masterful book without thinking through some of the basic concepts of our time.
What all Edward Delaney's work shares is robustness, in an Irish Times review of his 2004 retrospective, arts writer Aidan Dunne described his bronzes as robust, but having an awkwardness, a tenderness about them.
In a review published in The New York Times 12 May 1906 a certain K. Clark complains that her latest novel is so hard to procure and that one wonders why such a fine writer is so little appreciated.
This suspect was recently identified as DC Brian Cushway by the writer Stewart Home in a review of Seabrook's book ( www. stewarthomesociety. org / seabrook. htm ) but there is no evidence supporting the allegation, which is merely speculative.
Film critic Bosley Crowther gave the film a mixed review, writing, " In telling the picaresque story of a mystery writer on the trail of a Levantine bum whose career of crime in the Balkans has stimulated the writer's awe, the film wallows deeply in discourse and tediously trite flashbacks ... To be sure, the Warner schemists have poured some scabby atmosphere into this film and have been very liberal with the scenery in picturing international haunts and Balkan dives ... This sort of worldly melodrama calls for refinement in cinematic style, but the writing and direction of this picture betray a rather clumsy, conventional approach.

review and Harold
In its review of the 1989 London revival, the reviewer for The Guardian wrote that the " production also strikes me as infinitely superior to Harold Prince's 1975 version at the Adelphi.
* Book review by Harold Marcuse, with 15 " stab-in-the-back " illustrations, 1918-1942
In a review in the Sunday Times on 11 November, Harold Hobson wrote the stage was full of " practically the whole company waving gory stumps and eating cannibal pies.
In an article entitled " The Tory Leadership ", ostensibly a review of a new book by Randolph Churchill, Macleod lay out in great detail Harold Macmillan ’ s version of events, after his replacement by Home the previous October.
* Harold Norse has a poem, We Bumped Off Your Friend the Poet, inspired by a review of Ian Gibson's Death of Lorca.
Dave Kehr, in his review for the Chicago Reader, wrote, " The first-time director, Harold Ramis, can't hold it together: the picture lurches from style to style ( including some ill-placed whimsy with a gopher puppet ) and collapses somewhere between sitcom and sketch farce ".
His appeals were rejected, though New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman granted a temporary reprieve of Hauptmann's execution and made the politically unpopular move of having the New Jersey Board of Pardons review the case.
In his review for The New York Times, Harold C. Schonberg wrote, " Days of Heaven never really makes up its mind what it wants to be.
In his review for the Chicago Reader, Dave Kehr praised the performances of Harold Ramis and Bill Murray: " the affable Harold Ramis, becomes its genuine dramatic center: his struggles to keep his buddy Bill in line have a strange urgency and poignance ".
The 1966 Defence White Paper was a major review of the United Kingdom's defence policy brought about by the Labour Party government under the Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
In her review for the Times Literary Supplement, Roz Kaveney writes that the two illustrate Harold Bloom's notion of the " anxiety of influence " in addition to romantic friendship.
* 1995 review by Norm Dixon of Harold, a documentary by Steve Thomas
* Experiencing the Jewish Holocaust in Los Angeles: The Beit Hashoah — Museum of Tolerance, review essay by Harold Marcuse, Other Voices, v2. 1, Feb. 2000.
In a 1978 report, the review group appointed by the NRC and led by Professor Harold Lewis of the University of California concluded that " the uncertainties in WASH-1400's estimates of the probabilities of severe accidents were in general, greatly understated ".
In February 2012 Armand appeared as John in Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, receiving a positive review from Michael Billington.
Linde, Book Review, 81 Harvard Law Review 922 ( 1968 ) ( review of Diplomats, Scientists, and Politicians by Harold Jacobson and Eric Stein )
The weekend after it had already closed, Harold Hobson's belated rave review, " The Screw Turns Again ", appeared in The Sunday Times, rescuing its critical reputation and enabling it to become one of the classics of the modern stage.

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