Writing for The Criterion Collection in 1987, David Ehrenstein called it " one of the greatest action-adventure films ever made " and a " fast-paced, witty and visually stunning " chambara film.

Writing for Allmusic, critic Ben Davies wrote of the album " considering both the amount of classic Walsh songs not featured on Rocky Mountain Way and the many other more extensive and better chosen best-ofs available, this release is rather pointless.

In 2006, Jim Sheeler of the Rocky Mountain News won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his " Final Salute " special report, the story of a Marine major assigned to casualty notification and how he helps families with fallen relatives in Iraq cope with their loss.

" Writing for IGN, Eric Goldman, Dan Iverson and Brian Zoromski placed Hawking at number sixteen on their list " Top 25 Simpsons Guest Appearances.

Other books include Best Australian Humorous Writing ( with Andrew O ' Keefe, MUP, 2008 ), Australia's Population Challenge ( with Hugh J. Martin and Tim Watts, Penguin, 2003, ISBN 0-14-300113-2 ); Two Weeks in Lilliput ( Penguin, 1998 ), an account of Vizard's experiences attending the 1998 Australian Constitutional Convention ; Fast forward, the book: the complete guide to 3000 years of television ( ISBN014013400 ); and The Top seven lists from ' Tonight live with Steven Vizard ' ( ISBN1863301623 ).

A former DAAD ( Berlin ), Australia Council, NSW Writing Fellow and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, in 2011 Anna was named in the ‘ Top 100 People of Influence ’ by the Sydney Morning Herald.

Writing in the spring of 1945 a long essay titled " Antisemitism in Britain ," for the Contemporary Jewish Record, Orwell stated that anti-Semitism was on the increase in Britain, and that it was " irrational and will not yield to arguments.

Writing decades after Cantor's death, Wittgenstein lamented that mathematics is " ridden through and through with the pernicious idioms of set theory ," which he dismissed as " utter nonsense " that is " laughable " and " wrong ".

Writing might include the name of the owning military unit or commander or might be more imaginative: " Take this ," " Ouch ," and even " For Pompey's backside " added insult to injury, whereas dexai (" take this " or " catch!

Writing that " music is the ultimate teacher ," Kandinsky embarked upon the first seven of his ten Compositions.

* Cioc, Mark, Björn-Ola Linnér, and Matt Osborn, " Environmental History Writing in Northern Europe ," Environmental History, 5 ( 2000 ), pp. 396 – 406

* Bess, Michael, Mark Cioc, and James Sievert, " Environmental History Writing in Southern Europe ," Environmental History, 5 ( 2000 ), pp. 545 – 56 ;

Derrida first received major attention outside France with his lecture, " Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences ," delivered at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 ( and subsequently included in Writing and Difference ).

" In another essay in Writing and Difference entitled " Violence and Metaphysics: An Essay on the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas ", the roots of another major theme in Derrida's thought emerges: the Other as opposed to the Same " Deconstructive analysis deprives the present of its prestige and exposes it to something tout autre, " wholly other ," beyond what is foreseeable from the present, beyond the horizon of the " same ".

" Pardes: The Writing of Potentiality ," in Giorgio Agamben, Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy, ed.

* Myers, John L. " The Writing of History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America ," Civil War History, June 1985, Vol.

* Weiler, B., " Matthew Paris on the Writing of History ," Journal of Medieval History, 35, 3 ( 2009 ), 254-278.

* Dermot McCarthy, " Sisters Under the Mink: The Correspondent Fear in The History of Emily Montague ," Essays on Canadian Writing 51-52 ( Winter-Spring 1993 ): 340-57.

*" The Writing Life ," The Washington Post, Book World, April 23, 2000.

Writing to Strafford, his brother-in-law, on 29 November 1629, he severely censures Buckingham's conduct of the expedition to the Isle of Ré ; " since England was England ," he declared, " it received not so dishonourable a blow "; and he joined in the demand for Buckingham's impeachment in 1628.

" Writing in 2004, authors Michael Shermer and Dennis McFarland saw Rudolph's story as an example of " religious extremism in America ," warning that the phenomenon he represented was " particularly potent when gathered together under the umbrella of militia groups ," whom they believe to have protected Rudolph while he was a fugitive.

Writing in the New York Times on October 16, 1988, in a review entitled " Luminous ' Drama On Black Woman's Struggle ," Alvin Klein said, of " the dialogue that is so pure and lyrical, it positively sings and pierces the heart.

Scudéry's Conversations Sur Divers Sujets, included dialogues covering " Conversation ," " The Art of Speaking ," " Raillery ," " Invention ," and " The Manner of Writing Letters.

* Searle, Howard C., " Early Mormon Historiography: Writing the History of the Mormons ," Ph. D. Dissertation, UCLA, 1979. pp. 270ff.

* Hargett, James M. " Song Dynasty Local Gazetteers and Their Place in The History of Difangzhi Writing ," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies ( Volume 56, Number 2, 1996 ): 405 – 442.

Writing in the New York Post, Clive Barnes thought it was " the best thing that Lloyd Webber has written for the theater ," but Frank Rich of the New York Times was not impressed, observing that " empty material remains empty, no matter how talented those who perform it.

Writing in the 1st century BC, Horace refers to the wax abacus, a board covered with a thin layer of black wax on which columns and figures were inscribed using a stylus.

ASL grammar was obscured for much of its history by the practice of glossing it rather than transcribing it ( see Writing systems below ), a practice which conveyed little of its grammar apart from word order.

He worked on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes ( 1945 ), and Kitty Foyle ( 1940 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.

The trio received 37 Emmy Award nominations and won 24 Emmy Awards, including the above-mentioned for Frasier, as well as an Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy for Cheers, in 1989, which Angell, Casey, Lee and the series ' other producers shared, and Outstanding Writing / Comedy Emmy for Cheers, which Angell received in 1984.

Writing was from right to left except in archaic inscriptions, which occasionally used boustrophedon.

Each Element also has a specialty for which a character can get a 1-point bonus ; e. g., a 5-Air hero with an Air specialty of " Writing " could write as though their Air score were 6.

He co-wrote the script for Patton ( 1970 ), which won him an Academy Award for Best Writing ( Original Screenplay ).

Writing the book The Presidential Succession in 1910 ( 1908 ), he called on voters to prevent the sixth re-election of Porfirio Díaz, which he considered anti-democratic.

Writing about 80 years later, in 140-150 AD, Ptolemy, drawing on the earlier naval expeditions of Agricola, also distinguished between the Ebudes, of which he writes there were only five ( and thus possibly meaning the Inner Hebrides ) and Dumna.

Writing in 1872, church historian William Stephens said “ The Patriarch of the Eastern Rome appeals to the great bishops of the West, as the champions of an ecclesiastical discipline which he confesses himself unable to enforce, or to see any prospect of establishing.

Writing in the 2nd century Athenaeus of Naucratis provides a recipe for lagana which he attributes to the 1st century Chrysippus of Tyana: sheets of dough made of wheat flour and the juice of crushed lettuce, then flavoured with spices and deep-fried in oil.

Writing at the time of the Spanish conquistadors, Bernal Díaz del Castillo documented the first taco feast enjoyed by Europeans, a meal which Hernán Cortés arranged for his captains in Coyoacán.

Writing during the time of Augustus, Virgil has his hero give a first-person account of the fall of Troy in the second of the Aeneid's twelve books ; the Trojan Horse, which does not appear in " The Iliad ", became legendary from Virgil's account.

Writing to the Christians of Smyrna, in about AD 106, Saint Ignatius warned them to " stand aloof from such heretics ", because, among other reasons, " they abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again.

Writing most likely began as a consequence of political expansion in ancient cultures, which needed reliable means for transmitting information, maintaining financial accounts, keeping historical records, and similar activities.

Writing, more particularly, refers to two things: writing as an object, the thing that is written ; and writing as a gerund, which designates the activity of writing.

Writing most likely began as a consequence of political expansion in ancient cultures, which needed reliable means for transmitting information, maintaining financial accounts, keeping historical records, and similar activities.

Writing of the " artist as prophet " in his book, Concerning the Spiritual In Art, Kandinsky created paintings in the years immediately preceding World War I showing a coming cataclysm which would alter individual and social reality.

The Academy Award for Best Story was an Academy Award given from the beginning of the Academy Awards until 1957, when it was eliminated in favor of the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, which had been introduced in 1940.

At the 60th Academy Awards, The Last Emperor won all nine Oscars for which it was nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Music, Original Score and Best Sound

Writing at the time of the Spanish conquistadors, Bernal Díaz del Castillo documented a feast enjoyed by Europeans hosted by Hernán Cortés in Coyoacán, which included foods served in corn tortillas.

His series often challenge popular views of history: for example, Terry Jones ' Medieval Lives ( 2004 ) ( for which he received a 2004 Emmy nomination for " Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming ") argues that the Middle Ages was a more sophisticated period than is popularly thought, and Terry Jones ' Barbarians ( 2006 ) presents the cultural achievements of peoples conquered by the Roman Empire in a more positive light than Roman historians typically have, while criticizing the Romans as the true " barbarians " who exploited and destroyed higher civilizations.