Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

C. A. Lejeune in The Observer described Reed's " habit of printing his scenes askew, with floors sloping at a diagonal and close-ups deliriously tilted " as " most distracting ".

It is the setting for Stephen Hunter's fictional Bob Lee Swagger series, the most notable being Black Light, as well as the place where Joel B Reed's fictional character, Jazz Phillips, of the Jazz Phillips mystery series, grew up.

The first was his mentor and collaborator, Sir Alexander Korda in 1942, who had also been closely involved in the production of some of Reed's most admired films.

Reed's 1983 album Legendary Hearts featured most of the same group, but Quine eventually quit the group due to tensions with Reed.

The previously strong Andy Warhol influence is diminished, with the most notable ties to The Factory being the cover and back photographs taken by Warholite Billy Name, and opening track " Candy Says ," written about transsexual Candy Darling ( who would later appear in Reed's 1972 song, " Walk On The Wild Side ") The song was sung by Yule at Reed's insistence.

It was also explained that Reed's metabolism functioned because his cells were replaced with " pliable bacterial stacks ," single cells which duplicate most of the larger functions of the human body and does not rip or tear when he extends.

One of his most notable film roles was as Father Tom in Carol Reed's Belfast-set Odd Man Out ( 1947 ), whose cast was dense with actors from the Abbey Theatre.

He was also in four films ; most famously Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ( 1947 ), in which he played the opportunistic Shell.

In its obituary, The Guardian asserted: Reed's " comic timing, nimble footwork and clarity of diction made him the acknowledged master of the " patter " roles, at once the most challenging and defining of all Gilbert and Sullivan's creations.

Blyth also wrote that " The Lord Chancellor is one of John Reed's most appropriate roles, with plenty of scope for his fleet-footed clowning, and in the Nightmare-Song he gives an object-lesson in projecting one of Gilbert's most complex texts.

Photographer Mick Rock produced some of the most iconographic album covers of the 1970s, including Queen's Queen II ( recreated for their classic music video Bohemian Rhapsody ), Syd Barrett's The Madcap Laughs, and Lou Reed's Transformer.

Reed has been recognized for his integrity, and when offered a bribe of £ 10, 000 sterling ,, as well as the most valuable office in the colonies, to promote the cause of colonial reconciliation with the British crown, Reed's reply was, " I am not worth purchasing ; but, such as I am, the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.

Reed's best known and most widely performed work is the three-movement concert band composition La Fiesta Mexicana ( 1949 ), composed with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

The Velvet Underground, the band's self-titled third album, is presented in its famous " closet mix ", that is, Lou Reed's mix of the album that features a cramped, closed-in sound with more emphasis on vocals.

Dallesandro has a famous " jailhouse " style tattoo on his upper right arm that reads " Little Joe ", and was portrayed as the hustler " Little Joe " in Lou Reed's hit 1972 song " Walk on the Wild Side ", which was about the characters Reed knew from Warhol's studio, The Factory.

One of the many famous albums recorded at Trident was Lou Reed's Transformer, produced by David Bowie, who in turn recorded many albums there including The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.

In the forties, on the run after deserting from the army, Nolan lived at the Reed's famous house " Heide ", and it was here that he painted his first Ned Kelly series.

The poem was also rewritten and adapted as the first track to Lou Reed's 2003 album of Poe adaptations and Poe-inspired songs, The Raven.

Its program in the sciences is likewise unusual – Reed's TRIGA research reactor makes it the only school in the United States to have a nuclear reactor operated entirely by undergraduates.

Reed's total is the highest for a player on a losing team.

James B. McCreary, a Democrat from Kentucky, challenged Reed's authority to count him as present ; Reed replied, " The Chair is making a statement of fact that the gentleman from Kentucky is present.

In 1894, he published his handbook on parliamentary procedure, titled Reed's Rules: A Manual of General Parliamentary Law, which was, at the time, a very popular text on the subject and is still in use in the legislature of the State of Washington.

The value of fully meshed networks is proportional to the exponent of the number of subscribers, assuming that communicating groups of any two endpoints, up to and including all the endpoints, is approximated by Reed's Law.

Reed's law is the assertion of David P. Reed that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network.

According to this argument, the research around Dunbar's Number implies a limit on the number of inbound and outbound connections a human in a group-forming network can manage, so that the actual maximum-value structure is much sparser than the set-of-subsets measured by Reed's law or the complete graph measured by Metcalfe's Law.

There is no village center named " East Merrimack "; rather, the CDP refers to the region of the town of Merrimack lying east of the F. E. Everett Turnpike, overlapping portions of the villages of Reed's Ferry, Thornton's Ferry, and the center of Merrimack.

Merrimack was officially incorporated in 1746, a year largely regarded as Merrimack's birthday, although only the southern portion ( primarily what is known as Thornton's Ferry ) of the current boundaries of town was included in the original town, with the northern portion of what is now Merrimack ( primarily what is known as Reed's Ferry ) being added a few years later.

The northern portion of the town, Reed's Ferry is centered around the current intersection of Bedford Road and Daniel Webster Highway.

The boundaries of the area are unclear, as the northwestern part of town near Baboosic Lake is not traditionally considered a portion of Reed's Ferry.

Reed's Ferry Elementary School is located on Lyons Road.

As a radical departure from the rest of Reed's catalog, Metal Machine Music is generally considered to be either a joke, a grudging fulfillment of a contractual obligation, or an early example of noise music.

Note that Read's Island is the spelling used by the Ordnance Survey and other maps, whilst some spell it Reads Island, and others even Reed's or Reeds Island.

He also played a bully boy wrestler in Carol Reed's film A Kid for Two Farthings ( 1955 ) based around London's Petticoat Lane Market where he has a match against a local bodybuilder who is getting married to Diana Dors.

This song is much more of a tribute to Schwartz than the above-mentioned " European Son " in that the lyrics of " My House " are about Reed's relationship with Schwartz.

The title is taken from John Reed's book on the Revolution, Ten Days That Shook The World.

After having appeared in the experimental Poet and Theater ( Поэт и Театр, February 1965 ) show, based on Andrey Voznesensky's work and then in Ten Days that Shook the World ( after John Reed's book, April 1965 ), Vysotsky was commissioned by Lyubimov to write songs exclusively for Taganka's new II World War play.

At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War ( ISBN 0-89141-821-0 ) is an autobiographical book about Thomas C. Reed's experience at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory through his time as an advisor to President Ronald Reagan.

After Reed's death, the Guardian Unlimited called the casting decision, " One of the great missed opportunities of post-war British movie history ".

Reed's great-uncle was in the British Royal Navy on Earth, but was killed in action while chief engineer of the HMS Clement ( a submarine that struck a mine, a left over from an unmentioned war ).

" Orwell compared Reed's outlook to that of the anti-Hitlerian Nazi dissident Otto Strasser and the British fascist leader Oswald Mosley.

In the song " Lord, Mr. Ford " on the 1979 album " Matchbox " by British rockabilly band Matchbox, they cover Jerry Reed's 1973 original, and the line " Come away with me, Lucille " is repeated several times, with the addition, at the end of the song, of the line " In my smoking choking automobile.

During the occupation the British used the Sacher Hotel as their headquarters and it appears in Carol Reed's film The Third Man.