While Tulsa as a USFL host city had a number of legitimate problems, fan turnout was surprisingly respectable, especially compared to the crippling attendance numbers seen by USFL teams in Chicago ( 7, 455 ), Washington ( 7, 694 ) and Los Angeles ( 15, 361 ).

In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kevin Crust found Johnny Knoxville " surprisingly good " but felt that the script left " a lot to be desired, strewn with dialogue as flat and stale as old beer and some invented characters who make the events depicted seem more silly than anarchic ".

Late in her career, Colter designed the exuberant station cafe and a surprisingly sleek, Streamline Moderne cocktail lounge at Union Station in Los Angeles, now padlocked except for occasional movie shoots and Los Angeles Conservancy tours.

The rest of the book explores how different groups wielded power in different ways: the downtown Protestant elite, led by the Chandler family of the Los Angeles Times, and the new elite of the Jewish westside ; the surprisingly powerful homeowner groups, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Catholic Church.

Ame Pal oversaw the founding and building of much of the Lo and Mustang capital of Lo Manthang, a walled city surprisingly little changed in appearance from that time period.

The building of the lines took, surprisingly, only 10 to 11 months.

They outwitted opposing batsmen not only through line, length, and trajectory variations but also by physically and psychologically exploiting rough spots resulting from wear and tear on the playing top and cracks from increasing surface dryness as a game progressed. The Indian batsmen being superb players of spin bowling have generally relished home conditions. Also few opposition teams have fielded quality spinners with Australia having Shane Warne in the team an obvious exception. Not surprisingly building a first inning lead is crucial in matches played in India. While the Brabourne and Wankhede stadiums in Mumbai and Ferozshah Kotla in Delhi never offered nearly as much turn to spinners, winning a series in India was nevertheless quite difficult, and considered an ultimate challenge for visiting teams, as it is to this day.

The study found that the building was in surprisingly good shape, and it was named a historic landmark shortly thereafter.

However, the Romans demanded the complete surrender of the city, and surprisingly to the Romans the city refused, the faction advocating submission overturned by one in favor of defense.

They divorced in 1923 and, quite surprisingly, she did not seek alimony from Colt for herself, which was her right but she demanded that his entailed wealth still provide for their children.

The quality of the animation is surprisingly impressive ; some static backgrounds are the primary concession to a small-screen budget and the fluid character movements and expressions are vastly superior to those of, say, the Timon and Pumbaa TV cartoon series ," and gave the film 3½ stars out of 4.

William Dieterle, who ordinarily directs so well, has been guilty in this instance of a surprisingly static camera, of stage technique rather than cinematic.

* Quiescent current in a regulator circuit is the current drawn internally, not available to the load, normally measured as the input current while no load is connected ( and hence a source of inefficiency ; some linear regulators are, surprisingly, more efficient at very low current loads than switch-mode designs because of this ).

Just to test himself, he played roulette for quarters on his old combination, five and seventeen, and within an hour, he had won, surprisingly, twenty dollars.

Further, test audience screenings revealed a surprisingly mixed reaction to the sequences as they appeared in their unfinished form ; in post-screening surveys, they dominated both the " Scenes I liked most " and " Scenes I liked least " fields.

) In the playoffs, the Spurs would get a surprisingly tough test from the Sacramento Kings in the first round as they need an overtime win in Game 2 to win the first two games at home, before losing the next two on the road.

BBC's television series Top Gear demonstrated that the stock FQ-400 could surprisingly keep up with a Lamborghini Murciélago around a test track.

His final hurrah came in the 1990 World Championship qualifying, where he beat Ken Owers 10 – 8 before providing a surprisingly tough test for rising star James Wattana.

Cricket test New Zealand v Australia – surprisingly the first against Australia with full official test status.

However, the match turned out to be a tough encounter and surprisingly saw the team gain its first international victory 4-3 The South Africans featured several Australian players bought in to cover injuries and improve the quality of the side and so the match against New Zealand is not counted as a test match.

In an attempt to prove to others that she is not heartless, Rita surprisingly agrees to take on Sam's case pro bono.

It has also been proposed that higher frequency signals, such as lasers operating at visible light frequencies, may prove to be a fruitful method of interstellar communication ; at a given frequency it takes surprisingly small energy output for a laser emitter to outshine its local star from the perspective of its target.

Also in this one Arnold surprisingly suggests going to outer space himself to prove to Janet the truth.

They prove surprisingly successful, capturing Kor and preparing to make a last stand while the fleets are ready to clash.

An abnormally dry summer with unfavourable wickets in 1901 gave him what turned out to be his poorest record in first-class cricket in England ; though, with Rhodes not permitted by the Yorkshire committee to tour Australia, Blythe surprisingly went in his place but did not prove a totally adequate substitute.

Sable's surprisingly cordial diplomatic relationship with Doctor Doom would prove almost-fatal as the annual dinner happened to fall on the time when Doctor Doom's castle had been overtaken by an alien impersonator during the Infinity War crisis.

Despite this, Inferno would prove surprisingly sociable, often playing cards with his fellow Predacons (" Changing of the Guard ").

Still, she felt she could not do it ; George would prove to be surprisingly generous and understanding, giving her the Mogoşoaia Palace ( Mogosoëa in certain French renderings ) in 1912.

In the story, T ' yog surprisingly maintains that " the gods friendly to man could be arrayed against the hostile gods, and ... that Shub-Niggurath, Nug, and Yeb, as well as Yig the Serpent-god, were ready to take sides with man " against the more malevolent Ghanatothoa.

Although primarily a military weapon, the pike could be surprisingly effective in single combat and a number of 16th-century sources explain how it was to be used in a dueling situation ; fencers of the time often practiced with and competed against each other with long staves in place of pikes.

The four-masted barque can be handled with a surprisingly small crew — at minimum, ten — and while the usual crew was around thirty, almost half of them could be apprentices.

In a surprisingly uncontroversial move, he chose Isabel as his nominee for the Vice Presidency to mollify feuding Peronist factions, as these could agree on no other running mate.

A pre-pubescent boy could not be expected to have the muscular development of an adult, but the softness of his body and the emphasis on his lower stomach strike most viewers as surprisingly effeminate.

" Has a sidekick called Horse ( although the name could be false ), who has a habit of popping up surprisingly from the corner of the screen whenever needed.

Despite his mental instability, Rorschach was described as " tactically brilliant, and unpredictable " by Nite Owl, and possesses surprisingly good detective skills, as displayed when he is able to locate the Comedian's costume in his apartment when the police could not.

Night Thrasher's grave contained only the torn remains of the costume he was wearing during the Stamford incident, with analysis of the costume revealing a surprisingly minimal amount of biological material, although the doctor who performed the analysis note that this could be explained by the fact that Taylor was only human and was within close proximity of Nitro's explosion while also being partly protected by his costume.

It seemed possible that Māori Party MPs could play a role in the choice and formation of a governing coalition, and they ( surprisingly ) conducted talks with the National Party.

Dissatisfaction, not surprisingly, started growing, as the social and economical decline wore on — to some Scots it could only appear as if central England were rebuilding its strength on behalf of its conceived provinces.

In the Clausura Oriente could advance to next stage, in the quarter-final Oriente surprisingly knocked out Bolivar ( anyway, they qualified as the best loser ).

The origins of the activity called Digiscoping has been attributed to the photographic methods of Laurence Poh, a birdwatcher from the Malaysian Nature Society, who discovered in 1999 almost by accident that the new generation of point and shoot digital cameras could be held up to the eyepiece of a standard spotting scope and achieve surprisingly good results.

Survival rate of the Mark 2, especially the convertible, is surprisingly high and could help explain the relatively low number of older, especially Vitesse 6 saloons, remaining.

Somewhat surprisingly, some Israeli settler groups supported it, seeing it as a way by which Israel could permanently legitimise its hold on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Not surprisingly, he argues against a mechanical interpretation of the ether because he readily admits that no known physical medium could have such a potential function resisting only rotation of its elements.

Although his earlier works not surprisingly displayed some of the influence of his mentor, Lautner gradually developed his own style and consciously avoided anything that could be classified as " Wright-influenced ".

Their early albums featured a sound that could be described as noise-punk, albeit with surprisingly melodic vocal parts, along with some longer, less melodic improvised jam pieces.

An interesting feature of the F was its Hydragas suspension, a system employing interconnected fluid and gas displacers which provided a surprisingly compliant ride but which could be tuned to provide excellent handling characteristics.

The Andover could also be fitted with long-range ferry tanks, which enabled the short-range Andover to fly surprisingly long distances, such as across the Atlantic Ocean.

Reuschel could run surprisingly well for his size ( logging 4 triples in his batting career ) and he was frequently used as a pinch runner on days he was not pitching.

What, however, could not escape notice from any angle was his infinite propensity to borrow money, which age could not wither nor — more surprisingly — custom stale.

However, he did play the last fifteen minutes of the 2004 – 05 season, when Stuart Pearce surprisingly substituted Claudio Reyna for Weaver so the regular City goalkeeper David James could play in attack against Middlesbrough.