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In reviewing the film's sequel twenty-three years later, Variety noted that though the original film was " Intended as a cautionary tale on the pitfalls of unchecked ambition and greed, Stone's 1987 original instead had the effect of turning Douglas ' hugely charismatic ( and Oscar-winning ) villain into a household name and boardroom icon -- an inspiration to the very power players and Wall Street wannabes for whom he set such a terrible example.
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In April 2004, Slant magazine, reviewing the film's newly released DVD, gave it ( three stars out of five ), saying it " looks and sounds like its from 1986, but no amount of dirt and noise ( and there's some here and there ) can diffuse any of the film's magic.
Upon the film's UK re-release in 2002, Jamie Russell, reviewing the film for the BBC, said it " effortlessly intertwines action, drama, and comedy ", calling it " both cracking entertainment and a wonderful piece of cinema.
In 1976, reviewing it for the New York Times, Vincent Canby acknowledged the film's lack of direct political commentary: " The Front is not the whole story of an especially unpleasant piece of American history.
reviewing and sequel
Against Spielberg's original, " it is an inferior sequel to a classic ", but the reviewing the subsequent films Jaws 3-D and Jaws the Revenge shows the Szwarc's film to be " a decent sequel, and one produced before the franchise hit troubled waters.
The sequel, Big Brother 2, was given an even lower score of N / A %, the review explaining that " Gamer put as much effort into reviewing it as they did in making the game ".
reviewing and years
There were three exceptions ; when reviewing Labour Clauses from a peace treaty such as the Treaty of Versailles ( which was done by a special chamber of 5 judges, appointed every 3 years ), when reviewing cases on communications or transport arising from a peace treaty ( which used a similar procedure ) and when hearing summary procedure cases, which were reviewed by a panel of 3 judges.
The London edition of Time Out magazine, reviewing the film nearly a half-century after its initial release, commented: Fifty years on, you could say that Hitchcock ’ s sleek, wry, paranoid thriller caught the zeitgeist perfectly: Cold War shadiness, secret agents of power, urbane modernism, the ant-like bustle of city life, and a hint of dread behind the sharp suits of affluence.
" Hundreds of " obscenity " prosecutions went forward after Miller, and the Supreme Court began denying review of these state actions after years of reviewing many " obscenity " convictions ( over 60 appeared on the Court's docket for the 1971-72 term, pre-Miller ).
When reviewing " Hitler: A Study in Tyranny " in The Times in 1991, John Campbell wrote " Although written so soon after the end of the war and despite a steady flow of fresh evidence and reinterpretation, it has not been surpassed in nearly 40 years: an astonishing achievement.
He wrote Treadmill to Oblivion ( 1954, reviewing his radio and television years ) and Much Ado About Me ( 1956, covering his childhood and his vaudeville and Broadway years, and detailing especially vaudeville at its height with surprising objectivity ); the former – which included many of his vintage radio scripts – was the best-selling book on radio's classic period for many years.
In recent years new contributing factors were considered after reviewing accidents involving solo diving, diving with incapable dive partners, video or photography in caves, complex cave dives and cave diving in large groups.
It was while reviewing an exposition for one of these magazines he wrote for, in 1915 ( halfway through his two-year service in the army ), that he came in contact with the works of Piet Mondrian, who was eight years older than he was, and had by then already gained some attention with his paintings.
On the other hand, Kurt Loder, reviewing the album for Rolling Stone, called it " Phil Spector's finest and most mature effort in years ":
It proved immensely popular in its first few years, with thousands of online users uploading their work, reviewing work by their peers and participating in online competitions and short film festivals.
It meets every three to four years, and is responsible for reviewing and evaluating the GEF's general policies, the operation of the GEF, and its membership.
Although re-elected as Alderman for his old district for the 1914-1915 term, Kline resigned in early January 1914 to begin four years as the City's Tax Commissioner for Brooklyn ( reviewing appeals of property tax assessments ).
Actor Wil Wheaton, also reviewing the episode years later for TV Squad, gave the episode a ' C -' grade, suggesting that " at the time, Trekkies who were hoping to see the Star Trek that they were used to from the sixties must have been disappointed ".
After the dissolution of the PCB, decided by the 10th Congress, the Central Committee minority that was opposed to this action organized an " Extraordinary Reorganization Conference ", where it decided to rebuild the party with the maintaining of its identity and by reviewing the path that it had followed in the precedent years.
The platform promised to continue the freeze on post-secondary education and eventually eliminating loans in favour of needs-based grants, phasing out the payroll tax over six years, investing a third of any surplus into unfunded public pension funds, reviewing the province's income tax rates to ensure they are progressive and competitive and continuing to make payments on the province ’ s direct debt, among other things.
After spending 12 hours reviewing 6 years of data, the Robertson Panel concluded that most UFO reports had prosaic explanations, and that all could be explained with further investigation, which they deemed not worth the effort.
She did not share in the Nobel Prize, despite the fact that it was she, having helped build the four-acre radio telescope over two years, who initially recorded and then noticed the anomaly, reviewing 96 feet of paper data per night, and, as she confirmed in the Beautiful Minds programme, had to be persistent in recording and reporting it in the face of scorn from Hewish, who was initially insistent the anomaly was due to interference and man-made.
After four years of studying and reviewing the issue, the town and the village agreed to make the change.
The Sacramento Bee reported that Whitman did not vote for 28 years, after reviewing her voting records in California.
In 1941 Wylie became Vice-President of the International Game Fish Association and for many years was responsible for writing IGFA rules and reviewing world record claims.
He continued writing the column until his death 23 years later, reviewing a career total of more than 4, 000 titles of crime and detective fiction.
Thirty-five years later, David Wiegand, reviewing the series when it was released on DVD, called its formulaic structure a " completely satisfying guilty pleasure " and asserts the " appeal of the series is that the clues are actually there in the development of each show, and just before the denouement, Ellery breaks the " fourth wall " and asks if you've figured it out.
reviewing and later
On that cold, but bright, April day we were guests of your government in the reviewing stand of Red Square to witness the poeple's celebration for Yuri Gagarin and later on that day we attended the somewhat more exclusive reception for him in one of the impressive palaces of the Kremlin.
Bob Stanley ( later of Saint Etienne ), reviewing the Stone Roses album in Melody Maker wrote: " this is simply the best debut LP I've heard in my record buying lifetime.
The bones were later described as a new ( sub ) species, Pelecanus ( conspicillatus ) novaezealandiae ( Scarlett, 1966: " New Zealand Pelican ") as they appeared to be larger, but Worthy ( 1998 ), reviewing new material, determined that they were not separable from the Australian population.
John Ostrom, reviewing this material decades later, realized that the teeth came from Deinonychus, but the skeleton came from a completely different animal.
Reviewing Ultimates 3, IGN called the book a " reasonably decent experience " although the issue " falters on its own merits ", only to later state while reviewing the third issue that " Behind the theatrics and swagger, there's just nothing there to draw me in.
In a narrow sense, the General Staff ( Großer Generalstab, literally " Great General Staff ") was a full-time body at the head of the Prussian Army and later, the German Army, responsible for the continuous study of all aspects of war, and for drawing up and reviewing plans for mobilization or campaign.
* The Critic – Jay answered a different phone call and was later shown reviewing a different movie parody clip in each episode.
Ty Burr, later film critic for the Boston Globe, reviewing the novel in 1991 for Entertainment Weekly, praised Roszak's writing: " Still best known for 1968's The Making of a Counter Culture, a book that sought to explain ' 60s youth to an older generation of intellectuals, the writer proves to be a spellbinder when it comes to fiction.
* After the geek media section, there was a schedule of rotating extra items, including " Confectionery Theory " ( reviewing new sweets upon their arrival in the UK, later outsourced to snackspot. org. uk ), " feebdack " ( as a form of letters page ; the title referring to a coinage in Rudy Rucker's The Hacker and the Ants ), " boners " ( correction of errors in NTK itself ), and an occasional music review section.
The last chapter of each book was an epilogue in which the investigators sat with Alfred Hitchcock ( and later, " Hector Sebastian "), reviewing the mystery and revealing the deductions through the clues shown earlier in the book.
In Congress in the 1950s, for instance, the House Democratic Caucus met so infrequently that insurgent Democrats formed the House Democratic Study Group, led by Rep. Eugene J. McCarthy, later a U. S. Senator and Presidential candidate, to do the work of reviewing legislation now generally done by caucuses under the direction of the caucus chairs.
A few weeks later, upon a reviewing of the tapes, another 23 minutes of very weak signals were found on them.
He later met with William Menzies while reviewing the Assemblies of God archives in Springfield, MO.
His mother would later recall that young Eddie would sit with his grandmother reviewing and evaluating the performance of her stock picks in the daily paper.
The police decided to protect the Pacers as they left the arena, and to later contact the team after reviewing game film.
Former " Forecasts " editor Sybil Steinberg, who began reviewing for Publishers Weekly in 1976, later edited Writers and Their Craft: Interviews from Publishers Weekly ( 2003 ) and other books about writing.
In 1964, he started a year lecturing in English Literature at the City University of New York, and finally began his broadcasting career a few years later, when he became a radio producer for the BBC Third Programme, reviewing arts and literature.
The incident was missed by the match referee but not by the referee's assessor who later requested a copy of the matchday DVD from Alfreton Town and, upon reviewing the incident, reported Broughton to the
Devon is later reviewing photographs taken of stars at different periods in time and discovers that the star of the alien world went ultraviolet 40 years in the past.
After this, Kahr served as President of the Bavarian law court for reviewing administrative acts and, having sunk into relative obscurity, retired from public service three years later.
He later served on the commission responsible for reviewing claims for losses during the war, including his own.
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