Roger Ebert wrote that " Like almost all my favorite films, The Great Santini is about people more than it's about a story.

" Like Ebert, Canby pointed out that the political atmosphere of the film fills in the blanks left open by a relatively superficial plot.

" Like Ebert, Canby felt that the real significance of the film was in its capturing of a specific political situation rather than its conventional success through plot and character development.

Roger Ebert compared the film to Like Father, Like Son, also released in 1987, in that it was an " example of the newest Hollywood genre, the Generation Squeeze, in which plots artificially combine adult and teenage elements " in order to attract the latter to the movie theater while attracting enough of an adult audience for the success of the rental market.

" Roger Ebert wrote that " Like Mel Brooks ' " The Producers ," it's about fringe players who strike out boldly for the big time.

Critics such as Roger Ebert felt that film was unfunny, and that " Like many kids their age, these three are more bold in talk than action, and the movie sounds right ; it sounds like undergraduate human dialogue, intended to shock, to liberate, to amuse.

Roger Ebert, in his December 24, 1980 review, said although Seems Like Old Times made him " laugh out loud ", the movie never edged over the line of success.

Film critic Roger Ebert wrote of Jackson's decision: " Like Bill Cosby, Jackson is arguing against the anti-intellectual message that success for young black males is better sought in the worlds of rap and sports than in the classroom ".

Like their mobile K6-2 +/ III + predecessors, the CPUs were capable of dynamic clock adjustment for power optimization, and also was the reason for the unlocked multiplier.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

Like the festival of Samhain, opposite Beltane on 31 October, Beltane was also a time when the Otherworld was seen as particularly close at hand.

Like some of the chemical weapons, biological weapons may also be useful as area denial weapons.

Like the vision of Banquo's lineage, the banquet scene has also been the subject of criticism.

Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church also traces its heritage to the foundation of Christianity through Apostolic succession and has an episcopal structure, though the autonomy of the individual, mostly national churches is emphasized.

Like other rodents, the front teeth of capybaras grow continually to compensate for the constant wear from eating grasses ; their cheek teeth also grow continuously.

Like many proteases, chymotrypsin will also hydrolyse amide bonds in vitro, a virtue that enabled the use of substrate analogs such as N-acetyl-L-phenylalanine p-nitrophenyl amide for enzyme assays.

Like nitriding, carburization also leaves some compressive residual stresses in the surface.

Like Edinburgh IMP it allows embedded assembler, and also offers good run-time checking and diagnostics.

Cyril has also been portrayed in Ki Longfellow's Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria.

Like Nineteen Eighty Four, Ayn Rand's dystopian story Anthem was also an artistic portrayal of a command economy that was influenced by We.

Like resources, commodities are associated with a type of terrain, can be stolen by the robber ( with Seafarers, also the pirate ), count against the resource hand limit, and may not be collected if the robber is on the terrain.

Like Dewey he also felt that students should be actively engaged in their learning rather than actively disengaged with the simple reading and regurgitation of material.

Like many other Christian writers, he also claims that heresy began with Simon Magus, a figure whom receives mention in Acts 8: 9-13 for being a magician from the city of Samaria.

Like Arius, he was a pupil of Lucian of Antioch, and it is probable that he held the same views as Arius from the very beginning ; he was also one of Arius ' most fervent supporters who encouraged Arius.

Like NGC 1097, it is also a Seyfert galaxy.

Like most Indo-European roots in the Germanic languages, it was altered by Grimm's law, so that Indo-European / p / > / f /, and / d / > / t /, as the German cognate furzen also manifests.

Like Hardcore Logo, the 2005 Canadian film The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, about a country rock singer, was also done as a fake documentary with appearances by Kris Kristofferson, Ronnie Hawkins, Merle Haggard and Levon Helm playing themselves.

Like human beings, the jinn can also be good, evil, or neutrally benevolent.

Men Like Gods ( 1923 ) is also a utopian novel.

Like its predecessor, Hexen II also used a hub system.

Like the first ruling Hohenstaufen, Conrad III, also the last one, Conrad IV, was never crowned emperor.

He also appeared with Joan Blondell and Ruth Etting in a Vitaphone short, Broadway's Like That ( 1930 ) which was re-discovered in 1963.

Like hell he'd wait -- and supposing the radar-controlled gun got knocked out??

Like Mattie and the mayor up there gripping the microphone and Toonker Burkette back in his office yanking out teeth, like they all knew he would.

) Like the central processing unit ( CPU ) in a modern computer, the mill would rely upon its own internal procedures, to be stored in the form of pegs inserted into rotating drums called " barrels ", to carry out some of the more complex instructions the user's program might specify.

Thomas Nagel spelled out this point of view in an influential essay titled What Is it Like to Be a Bat ?.

Like Case, many cyberpunk protagonists are manipulated, placed in situations where they have little or no choice, and although they might see things through, they do not necessarily come out any further ahead than they previously were.

Like the Easter Island statues, there is plenty of speculation over how this was done by a society without machines or metal, but the generally accepted view is that the head and base were etched out of the ground by sharp adzes and picks ( possibly with the use of fire ), and carried to the assembly area by an elaborate system of ropes and logs.

Like most other intravesical bladder treatments, this treatment may require the patient to lie for 20 – 40 minutes, turning over every ten minutes, to allow the chemical to ' soak in ' and give a good coating, before it is passed out with the urine.

Like Hitler, Ribbentrop was determined that in the next crisis, Germany would not have its professed demands met in another Munich-type summit, and that the next crisis to be caused by Germany would result in the war that Chamberlain had " cheated " the Germans out of at Munich.

Like any plucked instrument, mandolin notes decay to silence rather than sound out continuously as with a bowed note on a violin.

Like many of his movies, it is richly allusive and generates a lot of its humour and charm out of its references to American film of the 1930s and 1940s.

Like most proofs of the PNT, it starts out by reformulating the problem in terms of a less intuitive, but better-behaved, prime-counting function.

Like many comics spun out of DC's 90's work, it incorporates the idea of the Christian God ( Jahve ) as the main antagonist of the series, serving as the creator who has left his creation.

Like the other axioms of countability, separability is a " limitation on size ", not necessarily in terms of cardinality ( though, in the presence of the Hausdorff axiom, this does turn out to be the case ; see below ) but in a more subtle topological sense.

Like the ( much longer ) team pursuit event, two teams race against each other, starting on opposite sides of the track, but at the end of the first lap, the leading rider in each team drops out of the race by riding up the banking leaving the second rider to lead for the second lap ; at the end of the second lap, the second rider does the same, leaving the third rider to complete the last lap on his own.

Like most Australian Lagers, VB is made using a wortstream brewing process, and uses a portion of cane sugar to thin out the body of the beer.

Like the earlier attempts at bands, The Waterfront fizzled out, but in late 1983 Couzens decided to try again at starting a band, and approached Brown.

Like Robert Boyle and Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Van Leeuwenhoek was interested in the dried cochineal, trying to find out if the dye came from a berry or an insect.

Like the 1957 film that influenced it, Menelaus is portrayed as a brutish king out for revenge.

Like the separate lap-and-sash belt, in a collision the 3-point belt spreads out the energy of the moving body over the chest, pelvis, and shoulders.

Like their mid-20th century peers, these cavemen listen to records, live in split-level homes, and eat out at restaurants, yet their technology is made entirely from pre-industrial materials and largely powered through the use of various animals.

Like the C / 116, the smoke covered their advance, although the 2nd Rangers were caught out on the right flank of the Ranger's landing.

Like the RUC, the Rapid Refresh model also runs hourly out to 18 hours on a 13-km grid spacing, but also covers a wider area and includes an experimental high-resolution mode that offers 3-km resolution at 15-minute intervals A backup version of the RUC continues to run.

Like all precocious teenagers, Modigliani preferred the company of older companions, and Ghiglia's role in his adolescence was to be a sympathetic ear as he worked himself out, principally in the convoluted letters that he regularly sent, and which survive today.

* ( Like a ) motorcycle in a motordrome: Ball spins several times around the inside of the rim, then drops through or goes " in & out ".