" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs, said, " We have not seen any evidence of the kind of massive desecration that being alleged ... The kind of activity they're alleging not easily hidden, especially on a willful, large-scale basis.

" The guy didn't have an enemy in the world ," recalled Beiderbecke's friend Russ Morgan, " ut he was out of this world most of the time.

Dan Juster of Tikkun, and Russ Resnik of the UMJC, have argued against the One Law movement's insistence on Gentiles being required to observe the entirety of Torah in the same way as Jews.

Film historians and fans have called these last three films " Bustoons " because Russ Meyer's use of color and mise en scène recalled larger than life pop art settings and cartoonish characters.

some of the actresses do not have large ( by Russ Meyer standards ) breasts yet their chests are always accentuated with very clever camera angles and well constructed bras.

While Russ Meyer may have championed powerful woman characters, he also forced them into violent and terrifying situations, making them prove their physical and mental strength against tremendous odds.

After a large funeral, she was interred in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, the same cemetery included by Marie C. Russ in her legal proceedings days before La Badie's death, with Marie Russ claiming to have been her actual birth mother in sworn deposition.

Anchors for the program have included Russ Mitchell ( 1997 – 2007, 2011 ), Susan Molinari ( 1997 – 1998 ), Dawn Stensland ( 1998 – 1999 ), Thalia Assuras ( 1999 – 2002 ), Gretchen Carlson ( 2002 – 2005 ), Tracy Smith ( 2005 – 2007 ), Maggie Rodriguez ( 2007 – 2008 ), Jeff Glor ( 2007 ), Chris Wragge, ( 2007 – 2010 ) Erica Hill ( 2008 – 2010 ) and weather anchor Ira Joe Fisher ( 1999 – 2006 )

He won the 2011 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize “ for automating DNA sequencing that revolutionized biomedicine and forensic science ” and the 2003 Lemelson-MIT Prize for inventing " four instruments that have unlocked much of the mystery of human biology " by helping decode the genome.

In addition, they have access to various vehicles, such as the Leman Russ main battle tank, Basilisk mobile artillery, Chimera armoured troop transport and the Sentinel walker.

New plastic kits for the Hellhound flamethrower tank and the Leman Russ Demolisher have been released, while new plastic kits for the Basilisk mobile artillery and the Chimera armoured troop transport were released with the expansion Battle Missions.

The loss of American Columbia product had forced English Columbia to groom its own talent such as Russ Conway, Acker Bilk, John Barry, Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Helen Shapiro, Frank Ifield, Rolf Harris, Freddie and the Dreamers, The Dave Clark Five, Shirley Bassey, Frankie Vaughan, Des O ' Connor, Ken Dodd, The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Seekers, Pink Floyd ( who have been on both Columbia UK and US ), and The Yardbirds.

" Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

" Fork " is not known to have been used in the sense of a community schism during the origins of Lucid Emacs ( now XEmacs ) ( 1991 ) or the BSDs ( 1993 – 1994 ); Russ Nelson used the term " shattering " for this sort of fork in 1993, attributing it to John Gilmore.

Many well-known entertainment personalities also have or have had homes on the estate including Chris Squire, Sir Elton John, song wrIter Bernie Taupin, Diana Dors, Russ Abbott, Cliff Richard and Sir Bruce Forsyth.

Clark, slipping into madness realizing that all his efforts have been for nothing, buys a realistic-looking BB gun pistol and demands a park security guard Russ Lasky ( John Candy ) to take them through the park at gunpoint ; Ellen and kids follow him, attempting to placate their father.

In a different interview Napier also claimed to have been introduced to the movies when his girlfriend brought him along as an informal bodyguard for an audition with Russ Meyers.

McNeil and Finder have been nominated for seven Eisner Awards and won in 2009 for best web comic, and one Russ Manning award.

According to Russ, " I have a real problem with any citizens ' group conducting any investigation into any crime ...

The Twins could probably have used his bat that season as the team's three catchers, Battey, Jerry Zimmerman, and Russ Nixon, combined to only hit. 176 and the Twins went 2-5 in late September and lost the pennant to the Red Sox in the last game of the season.

Russ Hinze was found to have accepted bribes from businessmen but died before charges were laid.

He played in Gus Sharp's orchestra for two years and in the 1920s went on to become a significant figure of the New York scene: he was a member of the Original Memphis Five ( 1922 ), played with Russ Gorman, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Sam Lanin, Ray Miller and many others.

Injuries allowed Russ Michna to become the team's starter over Bonner.

Bob McMillen replaced Mike Hohensee to become the team's second head coach in team history, and Russ Michna returned at quarterback.

Under the guidance of Edward West, Vice-President of Warner Bros. Records Inc in 1973 and its executives, A & R managers and staff producers, including Mo Ostin, Stan Cornyn, Lenny Waronker, Andy Wickham, Russ Titelman and ex-Warner Bros. recording artist ( with Harpers Bizarre ) Ted Templeman, sales grew streadily throughout the 1970s and by the end of the decade it had become one of the world's leading rock labels, with a star-studded roster that included Curved Air, Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, Van Morrison, America, Alice Cooper, Van Halen, The Doobie Brothers, Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, Seals & Crofts, Labelle and Rickie Lee Jones.

Russ Sr. has come to terms with his son quitting the football team, the two dads become friends, Wayne and Diane patch up their problems, Nick and Ron finally become friends, and Russ and Amy begin dating.

Many musicians who became international stars were a part of their coterie of bands, like the J. Geils Band, Peter Wolf & the Hallucinations ( with Wolf later joining Geils to form a hit combination ), Skunk Baxter ( later of Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan fame ), Jim Hodder of The Bead Game ( who went on to become a drummer and vocalist for Steely Dan ), Andy Pratt, Jimmy Thompson, drummer Russ Levine and Country Funk whose bass player Jim Lanham was later a founding member of The Pure Prairie League.

Based on characters from the book, it starred LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte, Avery Brooks as Cletus Moyer, Kate Mulgrew as Hattie Carraway, and Tim Russ as house slave Marcellus ( coincidentally, all four actors have become prominent as leading actors in the Star Trek franchise ).

A few fannish terms have become standard English, such as fanzine, short for " fan magazine ", coined by Russ Chauvenet in 1940, which swiftly replaced the older term fanmag.

Rocket is captain of the starship Rack ' n ' Ruin, and he and his first mate Wal Russ ( a talking walrus ) come from the planet Halfworld, in the Keystone Quadrant, an abandoned colony for the mentally ill where the animal companions were genetically manipulated to grant them human level intelligence and bipedal body construction for many to become caretakers of the inmates.

Then the Sex Pistols started on their own film, The Great Rock ' n ' Roll Swindle, and for a while, when Russ Meyer was due to direct, Willcox was going to take part in the movie.

After Russ ' death in 2001 due to a heart attack, Haas began wrestling in singles competition, winning the HWA Heavyweight Championship once.

Russ died from a heart attack due to a pre-existing heart condition, on December 15, 2001 at age 27.

Haas ' brother Russ was also a professional wrestler, until his death in 2001 due to a heart attack.

The ending of the series was due in part to Russ Manning moving to take over Tarzan from Marsh in # 154.

Formerly headed by Doug Darwin, Russ McKechnie and John Cameron, the corps was founded in the fall of 1971 by Jack Turner ( who, at one point, considered calling it " The Apple Corps " but didn't due to sponsorship by the local Kiwanis Club and better judgment on his part ), and is a member of Drum Corps International.

* On March 30, 2000, with Senator Russ Feingold, Ashcroft convened the only Senate hearing on racial profiling, where he stated that racial profiling is unconstitutional and said that he supported the concept of legislation requiring that statistics be kept of police actions.

Russ Meyer was born in San Leandro, California to William Arthur Meyer, a German-American Oakland police officer, and his wife Lydia Lucinda Hauck.

Russ visited two places without result and his blood pressure was down to zero.

Russ ran up the steps quickly to the plank porch.

Fierce anger surged through Russ.

Muffling an exclamation, Russ sprang to the nearest steps and ran down.

Russ pointed upward.

Forced behind him momentarily, Russ followed at once and halted two steps inside.

All the doors were open at this hour except one, and it was toward this that Stevens made his way with Russ close at his shoulder.

Russ sprang through to bat it nimbly aside.

Russ gave him a brutal thrust that tumbled him over flat on his stomach.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

You were right '', Russ exclaimed, tearing the loose bills out of Carmer's hat.

Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.

Handing the money over, Russ wiped his hands on his pants-legs as if ridding himself of something unclean.

It'll be a pleasure for you to return this money to Colcord and tell him about it, Russ ''.

To his faint surprise Russ held up his hand.

Hauling up, Russ listened carefully.

Cursing himself for having ridden out the last few days without a rifle in his saddle boot, Russ drew his Colt and examined it briefly.

Dismounting, Russ looked about hastily.

At the first shot Russ had hurled his mount to the left toward the side of the winding draw.

The Orioles got a run in the first inning when Breeding, along with Robinson, the two Birds who got a pair of hits, doubled to right center, moved to third on Russ Snyder's single to right and crossed on Kunkel's wild pitch into the dirt in front of the plate.

The club signed 3B Troy Glaus, P Russ Ortiz, SS Royce Clayton, and 2B Craig Counsell, among others.

The third a cappella musical to appear Off-Broadway, In Transit, premiered 5 October 2010 and was produced by Primary Stages with book, music, and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth.

His voice acting credits include Marlin the clownfish in Finding Nemo, and recurring guest voices for the animated television series The Simpsons, including Russ Cargill in The Simpsons Movie.