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In review for The Washington Post, Katherine Arie described some of the characters as unconvincing, such as Brian, who is " too good to be true ", Jesse, " a poster child for self-destructive behavior ", and Kate, who is " as weak and wispy on the page as she's supposed to be in life ", but ultimately called the book " a thrill to read ".
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the administration's official budget review, which estimates a 6.9 billion dollar deficit for the current fiscal year, isn't making anyone happy.
We sympathize with Mr. Kennedy, but we feel bound to say that his budget review doesn't please us either, although for very different reasons.
Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.
Probably the most important of all matters for review are the broad administrative policies governing the purchase, assignment, use, and management of state vehicles.
The demand for teaching sets continues unabated since they provide the means for the military physicians to review the pathology of selected disease processes or organ systems for review of basic sciences and correlation of clinical physiological behavior with structural changes.
There we held `` that the statutory scheme for review, within the selective service system, entitles [ conscientious objectors ] to no guarantee that the FBI reports must be produced for their inspection ''.
To avoid passing over quiet, unaggressive teachers as well as to decide whether others merit promotion, review of the right of faculty members to promotion or salary increases should be made periodically whether or not they have been recommended for advancement by their departments.
For almost a hundred years we relied upon state courts ( subject to review by the Supreme Court ) for the protection of most rights arising under national law.
About 70 North Providence taxpayers made appeals to the board of tax assessors for a review of their 1961 tax assessments during the last two days at the town hall in Centredale.
A measure passed by Congress just before adjourning softened the ruling's impact, on prior-year returns still under review, for clay-mining companies that make brick and tile products.
In United States appellate procedure, an appeal is a petition for review of a case that has been decided by a court of law.
There are many types of standard of review for appeals, such as de novo and abuse of discretion.
" Appellate review " is the general term for the process by which courts with appellate jurisdiction take jurisdiction of matters decided by lower courts.
It is distinguished from judicial review, which refers to the court's overriding constitutional or statutory right to determine if a legislative act or administrative decision is defective for jurisdictional or other reasons ( which may vary by jurisdiction ).
In Anglo-American common law courts, appellate review of lower court decisions may also be obtained by filing a petition for review by prerogative writ in certain cases.
This might be the proper standard of review, for example, if the lower court resolved the case by granting a pre-trial motion to dismiss or motion for summary judgment which is usually based only upon written submissions to the trial court and not on any trial testimony.
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Desson Howe, in this review for the Washington Post praised the film's style: " Bill Pope's cinematography is gymnastic and appropriately frenetic.
In a review of the book, Time Magazine wrote, " General Jackson's opinions need surprise no one who has observed George Washington and Abraham Lincoln zealously following the Communist Party Line in recent years.
" Richard Harrington of the Washington Post wrapped up his review stating that " the acting is straight out of ' 50s B movies.
Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote a particularly scathing review, stating that " It's impossible to know what Francis Coppola's Life Without Zoe is.
After a 60 Minutes / Washington Post investigation in November 2007 ( two years later ), the bureau agreed to identify, review, and release all of the pertinent cases, and notify prosecutors about cases in which faulty testimony was given.
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 his review for the Washington Post, Desson Howe praised the Coens and " their inspired, absurdist taste for weird, peculiar Americana – but a sort of neo-Americana that is entirely invented – the Coens have defined and mastered their own bizarre subgenre.
Rita Kempley's review in The Washington Post praised Meg Ryan as the " summer's Melanie Griffith – a honey-haired blonde who finally finds a showcase for her sheer exuberance.
One of Daley's first acts was to deny aldermen the power to review city contracts, a right they enjoyed under former Mayors Washington and Sawyer.
Robinson approached Washington to fashion a bill creating a civilian review board, consisting of both patrolmen and officers, to monitor police brutality.
" In her review for The Washington Post, Rita Kempley wrote that the film " asks us to believe that the drowned return to life, that the comatose come to the rescue, that driven women become doting wives, that Neptune cares about landlubbers.
In her review in The Washington Post, Rita Kempley, giving it a mixed review, wrote that the film " isn't as passionate as the title suggests — in fact, it's facile — but Ryan and Kevin Kline, as her attractive opposite, are irresistible together.
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 ".
The movie was a " loose, jovial, immensely pleasurable Christmas entertainment " for The Washington Posts Paul Attanasio, and a retrospective BBC review called the film " one of the series ' strongest episodes and proof that the franchise could weather the absence of space-bound action and the iconic USS Enterprise, and still be highly enjoyable ".
Insights that would do for a paragraph are dragged out with a doggedness that will presumably bring the idea home to even the most resistant and inattentive .” The sentiments expressed by Cecelia Holland ’ s 1987 Washington Post review of Buechner ’ s novel, Brendan, are far more common.
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 ...
In his review for the Washington Post, Desson Howe wrote, " although this Walt Disney movie is based, inspired and even partially informed by a real event referred to as Pearl Harbor, the movie is actually based on the movies Top Gun, Titanic and Saving Private Ryan.
In a 1996 The Washington Post gig review, Mark Jenkins wrote that Stereolab started out favoring an " easy-listening syncopation ", but eventually reverted to a " messier, more urgent sound " characteristic of their earlier performances.
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.
In her review for the Washington Post, Rita Kempley described Melanie Griffith as " luminous as Marilyn Monroe, as adorable as one of Disney's singing mice.
Washington Post critic Desson Howe gave a generally negative review of the movie, writing that it " gets bogged down in sentimentality, while its wheels spin futilely in life-solving overdrive.
In October, Washington traveled west to review the progress of the military expedition.
Washington met with the western representatives in Bedford, Pennsylvania, on October 9 before going to Fort Cumberland in Maryland to review the southern wing of the army.
In 1987, Congress, through legislation, transferred control of the airport from the FAA to the new Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority with the Authority's decisions being subject to a Congressional review panel.
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* " After an Early Bedtime, Calvin and Hobbes Are Up and Running in a New Collection "-Washington Post book review including broad look at Watterson's career
* Post change review: The change review board should hold a post implementation review of changes.
In a 2001 retrospective review of " Forever Changes ," Andrew Cowen of The Birmingham Post ( UK ) wrote, " This 1967 masterpiece ... is the nearest the Americans came to having their own ' Sgt Pepper ' and, in true American style, it was largely overlooked by the mainstream audience which, at the time, was hanging on every note played by The Beatles.
The first of these shows were actually called Crazy People and subtitled " The Junior Crazy Gang "; the term " Goon " was used as the headline of a review of Bentine's act by Picture Post dated 5 November 1948.
In 1982 the Post criticized the Times for its negative review of the movie Inchon, which was also sponsored by the Unification Church.
* The Denver Post, 23 May 1993 ( VHS review )
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