When Luis Buñuel died at age 83, his obituary in The New York Times called him " an iconoclast, moralist and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later.

When Buñuel was just four and a half months old, the family moved to Zaragoza, where they were one of the wealthiest families in town.

" Damon Wise of Empire magazine gave it five stars, calling it " A dazzling and exquisitely original riddle as told by an enigma " and Jim Emerson ( editor of RogerEbert. com ) gave it 4 stars and praised it: " When people say Inland Empire is Lynch's Sunset Boulevard, Lynch's Persona or Lynch's 8½, they're quite right, but it also explicitly invokes connections to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou, Buñuel and Dali's Un Chien Andalou, Maya Deren's LA-experimental Meshes of the Afternoon ( a Lynch favorite ) and others ".

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* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.

When Maynard Smith realized that the somewhat disorganised Price was not ready to revise his article for publication, he offered to add Price as co-author.

When the Witchcraft Laws were replaced, in 1951, by the Fraudulent Mediums Act, Gerald Gardner went public, initially somewhat cautiously.

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When the bud develops, the scales may enlarge somewhat but usually just drop off, leaving on the surface of the growing stem a series of horizontally-elongated scars.

When it bakes, it becomes crispy but, since it contains somewhat less water, does not expand to the same degree as puff pastry does.

When Rachel's body finally healed, it was just as the Phoenix discovered that its actions on the physical plane were causing potential life to be used up, so it woke her and told her that her powers would be somewhat lessened, as the Phoenix was returning to its natural state.

When originally developed, for the Intel i860, the use of integer math made sense ( both 2D and 3D calculations required it ), but as graphics cards that did much of this became common, integer SIMD in the CPU became somewhat redundant for graphical applications.

When Isis finds Morag, she learns that though Morag has lapsed somewhat in her Luskentyrian practices ( her work as a porn actress is not inconsistent with the cult's beliefs ) she had every intention of returning for the festival.

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When the Phylloxera arrived, this caused a lot of people of the wine field to go bankrupt, due to a major crisis with the Cervera wine trade, which recovered somewhat with the creation of the Sindicat Agrícola ( 1919 ).

( When Roger knew he was dying, though, he did nothing to rewrite his will, which means that his literary executor is a family member from whom he was somewhat estranged -- not someone who would have kept Roger's wishes paramount.

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When urged by Kothar-wa-Khasis, Ba ’ al, somewhat reluctantly, opens a window in his palace and sends forth thunder and lightning.

When the series returned for a second season in the spring of 2003 the series had suffered somewhat of a decline in viewership, averaging around 8 million viewers per week.

" When the bill erecting it passed the Legislature, however, Martin Van Buren, then a State Senator, and who, being an ardent admirer of the great Napoleon, was somewhat incensed at one of his political opponents ( Elisha Williams, if we mistake not ), who had succeeded in having a town in Seneca county christened " Waterloo ," leaped to his feet and moved to amend by calling the new town " Austerlitz.

When the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway came to town in 1907, its line passed somewhat north of the town.

When The Cure was first formed, Smith did not intend to become the lead vocalist ; he began singing after the original singer left the band and fell into the role somewhat by default, since no better replacement appeared.

When first introduced into Victoria Police, the Leading Senior Constable was a classification not a rank, somewhat like " detective ".

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When the railway tunnels were constructed and opened, the ferry service did suffer somewhat but it always remained popular.

When Smith asks if they will take other work at $ 8 to $ 10 a week, the ladies laugh derisively, which loses them public sympathy.

When Nomi tells Cristal she dances at Cheetah's Topless Club, Cristal derisively tells her that what she does is akin to prostitution.

* When 312 covered the entire city, city residents would derisively call suburbanites " 708ers " in reference to their area code.

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When he arrived with his servants, he ordered the barn's doors shut and locked, then set the barn on fire and burned the peasants to death, derisively commenting on their death cries with the words " Hear the mice squeak!

When they were refused entrance to his brother's house nearby, they smashed down the door, broke the window, and threw lighted clothes wet with kerosene into the room.

" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.

When Democratic-Republicans in some states refused to enforce federal laws, and even threatened to rebel, Federalists threatened to send the army to force them to capitulate.

When management refused to support the concept, Ahl left DEC in 1974 to found the seminal computer magazine, Creative Computing.

When Bonds hit his 755th home run, Selig refused to applaud Bonds ' accomplishment, instead choosing to keep his hands in his pockets and have a look of disdain on his face.

When the Soviet Union was the only member state which refused to sign, the U. S. embarked on a massive nuclear weapons testing, development, and deployment program.

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When bankers in Enid refused to lend him more money to build his planes, he moved to Wichita.

When Gail refused to go along with the plan, Joe sailed away and in the attempt, drowned for real, leaving Gail to be charged with his murder.

When the Communists captured the Nationalist capital of Nanjing in April 1949, Li refused to accompany the central government as it fled to Guangdong, instead expressing his dissatisfaction with Chiang by retiring to Guangxi.

When Pope Clement VII refused to annul the marriage, Henry defied him by assuming supremacy over religious matters.

When Dien Bien Phu fell in May 1954, Ike refused to intervene despite urgings from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice President and the head of NCS.

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When Auckland refused to put the agreement in writing, Dost Mohammad turned his back on the British and began negotiations with Vitkevich.

When Napoleon I ordered the invasion of Portugal in 1807 because it refused to join the Continental System, the Portuguese Braganças moved their capital to Rio de Janeiro to avoid the fate of the Spanish Bourbons ( Napoleon I arrested them and made his brother Joseph king ).

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When Charles finally did propose marriage to Amanda later in 1979, the circumstances were tragically changed, and she refused him.

When he refused, Tammany went to the New York Supreme Court and successfully sued to keep Kelly ’ s name off the ballot.

When they refused, Galen performed the surgery himself and in so doing won the favor of the High Priest of Asia.

When they refused most of the fellows were ejected and replaced by Catholics.

When Nayler refused to kiss Fox's hand, Fox told Nayler to kiss his foot instead.

When the newly elected National Assembly refused to pass this document and drafted one of their own preserving this prohibition, it was forcibly dissolved by Gendarmerie commandant Smedley Butler.

When Röhm refused to kill himself, he was shot dead by two SS officers.

When they refused to hand the arms to the government, Ben-Gurion ordered that the ship be sunk.

When the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to US authorities and to disband al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in which teams of American and British special forces worked with commanders of the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban.