" Macron, he noted acidly, "went to Germany to compliment Mme.
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It's also somewhat strange that YouTube has produced a work so acidly insincere.
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" Of course, as Pao acidly notes, "I didn't find the men particularly hilarious.
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" But as Jonathan Freedland, a Guardian columnist, said acidly: "They got their bonfire.
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" To which Levin replied with a Facbook post acidly titled, "John Nolte has spoken.
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"The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are now deciding the world's destiny," Mao said acidly.
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Few other shows have examined American race relations with such an acidly amusing eye.
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"I don't need a star in my team," Jia replied acidly, when asked why afterward.
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Clinton is writing a book and speaking out more acidly than she allowed herself on the campaign trail.
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The self-inflicted chaos, suspicion and inertia—and the brutal self-interest that lurks beneath—acidly capture the national mood.
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His efforts can turn on a dime from acidly psychedelic rock to uneasily introspective chamber and lush Wall of Sound pop.
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"If we know that somebody's working a 100-hour workweek, I'm not sure we need a study," Mr. McCain said acidly.
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When Rainer acidly likens therapists to astrologers and psychics of old, the comparison feels more apt than we might like to admit.
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Through that experience, she came to meet Mr. Broodthaers, whose unsettling, poetic, acidly funny work was a hard sell even in Europe.
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"We don't need the empire to give us anything," Castro wrote, referring to the United States, in his acidly critical and rambling column.
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It was inclined to give the president a win, even if, as Jones acidly noted, the deal wasn't what it was promised to be.
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With early voting already underway in some states, it now seems inevitable that the acidly divisive confirmation battle will ripple through the electorate through November.
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Like those films, Velvet Buzzsaw is full of acidly overbright, larger-than-life figures who hold particular parts of their insular creative world up for mockery.
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The EPP, he notes acidly, is supposed to be the home of European Christian democracy yet finds space for heathens like Silvio Berlusconi and Viktor Orban.
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As Paul Krugman, the equally renowned but ideologically opposed academic and columnist, acidly pointed out this week, Taylor has refused to acknowledge that this prediction was wrong.
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"It's almost as though I used a curse word," Ms. Le Pen said acidly as she left the Elysée after her fruitless pitch to Mr. Hollande for a referendum.
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When the Wall Street Journal prepared a story about how Bezos's divorce might affect his company, Amazon's P.R. department, which had been known for using mild language, responded acidly.
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Notably, even as Mr. Beckworth kept referring to the defendants as Johnson & Johnson, acidly underlining the familiar parent name of the company, Mr. Ottaway kept referring to his client as Janssen.
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"You win with class, you lose with class, and he just can't do it," Angi Horn Stalnaker, a Republican strategist who ran campaigns, with mixed success, against Mr. Moore, said acidly.
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This week, a regional field director for the Bernie Sanders campaign was fired for tweets that demeaned—acidly and in the extremely online parlance of cruel detachment—the current crop of Democratic presidential candidates.
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He had also represented detainees, acidly commenting one too many times on a court system that finished trials in minutes and gave lawyers no access to their clients or the supposed evidence against them.
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The majority leader wondered acidly what ideas Democrats might have for fixing American health insurance, and noted that most Democratic senators had voted "present" on a bill proposing that America should embrace a single-payer system.
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His private meeting Thursday with 41 Senate Republicans, including some who have publicly criticized him repeatedly, grew acidly contentious, according to multiple lawmakers and other people present who insisted on anonymity to candidly recount the proceedings.
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In that first, seemingly self-contained season, based on a novel by Liane Moriarty, the creator David E. Kelley used a murder investigation as a delivery device for an empathetic, class-conscious and acidly funny drama.
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David L. Evans, associate dean of admissions at Harvard, acidly complained that because of the DeFunis case, alumni believed that "semiliterate blacks are being accepted at the expense of white geniuses," according to The Harvard Crimson in 1975.
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" Hillary tells Bill, "You can't help but make my thing about you," acidly noting that she would like to get the Bill who's famous for listening and empathizing because the Bill she gets "tramples me time after time.
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MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — Donald J. Trump unabashedly trumpeted his support for warmer relations with Russia at a campaign rally here on Monday night, acidly mocking opponents who say he is too friendly to Vladimir V. Putin, the country's strongman president.
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"At the end of the day if Bannon is fired, this Republican White House, which is supposed to be nationalist conservative, would be fully staffed by generals, Democrats, Clinton voters and the occasional Bush aide," the second Bannon ally said, acidly.
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"I had low expectations of what I could achieve as a female writer," the older Joan acidly tells a nosy would-be biographer in Stockholm, recalling the night decades before when a bitter Smith alumna advised her not to even try.
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Mr. Bush acidly described Reagan's promise to raise military spending and cutting taxes as "voodoo economics" during the 1980 campaign, but that didn't stop Reagan from choosing him as his running mate, and Mr. Bush from being an aggressively loyal partner.
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") When Bloomberg ("a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians") listed all the female executives he's appointed, Warren noted acidly that he was basically arguing everything he's done was OK because "I've been nice to some women.
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He acidly noted in private that his predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, would deride the notion of government-sponsored care for older Americans as socialized medicine before "getting into his limousine" to enjoy free treatment at the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center.
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Robert D. Putnam, the influential political scientist, found that "immigration and ethnic diversity challenge social solidarity and inhibit social capital," at least in the short term; the claim that diversity makes us strong is, as Coulter acidly notes, a motto, not an empirical fact.
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WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee used his perch atop the storied Foreign Relations Committee to offer barbed criticisms of the president's foreign policy, once acidly referring to the White House as an "adult day care center" that would set the nation on a path to World War III.
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But billing her San Diego speech on Thursday as a foreign policy address was also something of a ruse: It turned out to be an acidly funny takedown of Mr. Trump and his temperament, giving him the same sort of belittling treatment he had used on his opponents to great effect.
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"Passengers who insist on flying the plane are called hijackers," Russell Roth, president of the American Medical Association, acidly remarked in 1976 about the law that ushered in managed care, without acknowledging that doctors had done little to rectify the problems that made managed care necessary in the first place.
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For Mr. Spicer, who resigned this summer after repeated clashes with the news media and a sharp disagreement with Mr. Trump over the appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director, the Emmys were his latest attempt to court the largely liberal coastal entertainment and news elites he so acidly disdained as the president's alter-ego spokesman.
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But while toxic problems keep piling up and, well, raining acidly down on the social networking giant — from election interference, to fake accounts, faulty metrics, security flaws, ethics failures, privacy outrages and much more besides — the silver lining of having a core business now widely perceived as hostile to democratic processes and civilized sentiment, and the tool of choice for shitposters agitating for hate and societal division, well, everywhere in the world, is that Facebook has frankly far more important things to worry about than the latest anti-tech-industry salvo from President Trump.
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Vernon sent Coventry and Seahorse after her and she surrendered after a short action. A French account remarks acidly that she surrendered to a frigate of her own size without a fight.Barras (1895), Vol. 1, pp.371–2.
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The last famous squire bearing this name was Laurent Franconi who died in 1849. Napoleon once remarked acidly to his marshal Joachim Murat, who was gayly attired in an extravagant Polish uniform after the Battle of Heilsberg in 1807, that he looked like Franconi ("Vous avez l'air de Franconi").
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Sartines captain, Count du Chaillar, first had to be roused from his bed ashore. The British merchant vessels escaped, but Sartine came too close to Vernon's squadron. He sent Coventry and Seahorse after her and she surrendered after a short action. A French account remarks acidly that she surrendered to a frigate of her own size without a fight.
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Sartines captain, Count du Chaillar, first had to be roused from his bed ashore. The British merchant vessels escaped, but Sartine came too close to Vernon's squadron. He sent Coventry and Seahorse after her and she surrendered after a short action. A French account remarks acidly that she surrendered to a frigate of her own size without a fight.
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When champagne was ordered to mark Tolkien's donation to the College of his original manuscript of The Hobbit, Highfield remarked acidly: "waste of good champagne". Highfield served as Merton's archivist for almost 40 years, as well as other College offices. In 1953 Highfield began a series of annual history reading weeks in Cornwall, open to all undergraduate historians, a tradition which continues today.
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Böll's concern about damage to the environment, so evident from his play, was a driving force behind the establishment of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Böll's villains are the figures of authority in government, business, the mainstream media, and in the Church, whom he castigates, sometimes humorously, sometimes acidly, for what he perceived as their conformism, lack of courage, self-satisfied attitude and abuse of power.
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She recalls how he refused to be parted from their daughter and took her into battle with him, where they were both killed. Sulpizio tells her that though the father was killed, the baby was not, and introduces her to Maria. Margate acidly observes that the supposedly 21-year-old Marchioness must have become a mother at the age of two. The Marchioness reclaims Maria as her daughter, to the desolation of the soldiers.
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There is nothing dated about [his] performance. It's as right-now as a sharpened knife." Dave Kehr in the Chicago Reader called it "cold, lurid, and fascinating" and Nathan Lee of The Village Voice wrote, "Here is, half a century out of the past, a movie so acidly au courant it stings." Time Out London wrote, "As a diatribe against all that is worst in human nature, it has moments dipped in pure vitriol.
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At one time in the course of the conference, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru acidly spoke against the SEATO. Quick to draw, Ambassador Rómulo delivered a stinging, eloquent retort that prompted Prime Minister Nehru to publicly apologize to the Philippine delegation. Records had it that the Philippine delegation ably represented the interests of the Philippines and, in the ultimate analysis, succeeded in turning the Bandung Conference into a victory against the plans of its socialist and neutralist delegates.
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But on this dubious sentiment Edith Sitwell commented acidly, "If he means to say that cricket, and cricket alone, has prevented men from committing suicide, then their continuation on this earth seems hardly worthwhile."Firchow 2002, p.22 Continuing this theme, the athlete who died young was lucky, for he did not outlive his renown (XIX). The poet exchanges a glance with a marching soldier and wishes him well, thinking they will never cross paths again (XXII).
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Initially, he was put to work hauling timber, but his health failed and he was assigned night watchman at a timber storage facility. There he began to gradually lose his vision due to malnutrition, though he was reunited with his wife in 1932 at Belbaltlag labor camp. In December 1931, Maxim Gorky wrote acidly in Pravda and in Izvestia that he regretted Losev was still alive to foul the Soviet air. Ironically, it was Gorky's first wife who obtained Losev's release from Gulag.
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The show went on to receive seven Tony Award nominations, winning six, including Best Play. The play won Letts the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2008. Letts has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer drama prize for his plays Man from Nebraska and The Minutes, the Pulitzer committee describing the latter as a "shocking drama set in a seemingly mundane city council meeting that acidly articulates a uniquely American toxicity that feels both historic and contemporary.""Finalists Tracy Letts" pulitzer.
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He encouraged players to adopt vegetarianism, believing it supported both athleticism and a "gentle and gentlemanly" sportsmanship. The football team was dropped following the 1939 season. In explaining the reason to drop football, Robert Maynard Hutchins, the university’s president, had written acidly in The Saturday Evening Post “In many colleges, it is possible for a boy to win 12 letters without learning how to write one.” On March 7, 1946 the University of Chicago withdrew from the Big Ten Conference.
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' About > this time Alice James remarked acidly that Elly's flustered carryings - on > about her engagement were likely to exasperate her fiancé beyond endurance. > In 1913, Henry, writing to his acolyte Howard Sturgis about the relatives he > had mentioned in his memoir A Small Boy and Others, explained enigmatically, > 'Yes, my Father's two other sisters were my Van Buren and my Temple aunts. I > should have liked to drag in the former's daughter, the intimate of our > childhood, or of mine, later Mrs. Stuyvesant Morris, but forebore.
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Victor Serge was appreciative of Rolland's interventions on his behalf but ultimately thoroughly disappointed by Rolland's refusal to break publicly with Stalin and the repressive Soviet regime. The entry for May 4, 1945, a few weeks after Rolland's death, in Serge's Notebooks: 1936-1947 notes acidly that "At age seventy the author of Jean-Christophe allowed himself to be covered with the blood spilled by a tyranny of which he was a faithful adulator." Hermann Hesse dedicated Siddhartha to Romain Rolland "my dear friend".
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In it, Pico acidly condemned the deterministic practices of the astrologers of his day. After the death of Lorenzo de' Medici, in 1492, Pico moved to Ferrara, although he continued to visit Florence. In Florence, political instability gave rise to the increasing influence of Savonarola, whose reactionary opposition to Renaissance expansion and style had already brought about conflict with the Medici family (they eventually were expelled from Florence) and would lead to the wholesale destruction of books and paintings. Nevertheless, Pico became a follower of Savonarola.
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Then they departed with great shame and loss, and > without their leader, to their own country. The account of the Annales Bertiniani is more brief: > Meanwhile the Norseman Hróðulfr (Latin: Rodulfus), who had inflicted many > evils on Charles's realm, was slain in the realm of Louis with 500 and more > of his accomplices. Charles got reliable news of this as he remained in his > position in Angers. The anonymous author of the Annales Xantenses remarks acidly on his death: > Quamvis baptizatus esset, caninam vitam digne morte finivit.
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In his middle years he became a "fashionable" society doctor and was the personal physician of two of the sons of Queen Victoria. In 1868, he was appointed as Extra Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, and Surgeon-in-Ordinary to his brother, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. This caused the Medical Press and Circular to comment acidly: Despite the misgivings of the medical press, in 1872 the Prince of Wales fell sick at Scarborough with typhoid fever, and Clayton correctly diagnosed the illness.
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The passengers are interrogated by Inspector Harris, who knows Wallace (acidly reminding the informant that he is not a detective) and is the former partner of the murdered inspector. Oliver tricks Wallace into exposing himself as the jewel thief and the murderer. Wallace tries to escape out a window using the gun but is shot by Harris, who does not realize the gun is empty. Oliver then reveals that when he went to the cockpit, he used the plane's radio to summon Scotland Yard to detain the arrivals.
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The dirt of the present habitation equals its desolation . . . [t]he landlord had dismantled the place because no respectable person would live there." Another distinguished essayist, Thomas Babington Macaulay, acidly remarked: "There is a possibility that Thurtell may have killed Weare only in order to give the youth of England an impressive warning against gaming and bad company. There is a possibility that Fauntleroy may have forged powers of attorney, only in order that his fate might turn the attention of the public to the defects of the penal law.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 92% approval rating, based on 153 reviews, with an average rating of 7.92/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "This is a piercingly honest, acidly witty look at divorce and its impact on a family." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 82 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".Squid and the Whale, The (2005): Reviews On an episode of Ebert & Roeper, both critics praised the film and gave it a "two thumbs up" rating.
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He obtained a Treasury grant of £77m to build the Docklands Light Railway, although transport links to Docklands remained inadequate. He opened Britain's first Enterprise Zone at Corby in Northamptonshire. Some criticism was made of his time in Liverpool that he spent a lot of money but generated little in the way of new employment ("I would not blame him for that: Liverpool had defeated better men than Michael Heseltine" commented Lady Thatcher acidly in her memoirs in 1993). Local Labour politicians tended to feel that he had accomplished little, although they acknowledged his good intentions.
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Writing in The New York Times, Nora Sayre called the film "pensive and moving" but others were less admiring. The Times' own associate editor, Walter Goodman, labeled the film as "Communist propaganda", and complained acidly that it plays upon sentimentality by constantly veering among shots of "beautiful children, bombed-out-towns, beautiful children, workers making bicycles... and beautiful children". An editorial in a Louisiana newspaper called it "an unabashed publicist's job" for the North Vietnamese. The Hollywood trade journal Variety simply dismissed it as an example of the filmmakers' self-dramatization and radical chic (and even scornfully remarked upon Fonda's "incongruously dippy smile").
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Instead, he maintained, "the British fleet should be as compact as possible, in order to take the critical moment of an advantage opening ..." Others criticise Hood because he "did not wholeheartedly aid his chief", and that a lesser officer "would have been court-martialled for not doing his utmost to engage the enemy."Larrabee, p. 276 One contemporary writer critical of the scuttling of the Terrible wrote that "she made no more water than she did before [the battle]", and, more acidly, "If an able officer had been at the head of the fleet, the Terrible would not have been destroyed."Larrabee, p.
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" Lucas, Doctor Dido, p.313 He reads to the hushed gathering a letter dictated to an orderly by Captain Charles Letourneur, now a mutilé de guerre, describing the horrors of the Crossing of the Beresina and the details of Sophie's death (she had abandoned the safety of Danzig to nurse her wounded husband during the retreat). In the silence that follows, Plampin walks out. One of the dons acidly quotes Scripture: "The lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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Rome, meanwhile, appears to have been largely unaware of the real situation in Armenia. Tacitus acidly records that "trophies for the Parthian war and arches were erected in the center of the Capitoline hill" by decree of the Senate, even while the war was not yet decided.Tacitus, Annales XV.18 Whatever illusions the Roman leadership had, they were shattered by the arrival of the Parthian delegation to Rome in the spring of 63. Their demands, and the subsequent interrogation of the centurion who accompanied them, revealed to Nero and the Senate the true extent of the disaster, which Paetus had concealed in his dispatches.
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Ackerman's first success was Tabletop, staged at the American Place Theatre in 2000. John Simon, writing for New York Magazine, called it "acidly funny" and "spot-on about the making of a T.V. commercial." Ackerman has since written Disconnect (2005, Working Theater, Classic Stage Company), Icarus of Ohio (2008, NYU Tisch School of the Arts), Volleygirls (2009, American Conservatory Theater), and Call Me Waldo (2012, Working Theater, Off Broadway and Kitchen Theater, Ithaca). His debut play, Origin of the Species, became a movie starring Amanda Peet, Michael Kelly, and Jean Louisa Kelly, and directed by Andrés Heinz, who wrote the original screenplay that became Black Swan.
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Victor engineer Harry O. Sooy acidly remarked in his memoirs "Mme. Eames last recording date was April 14, 1911, and the recording staff has not had one minute’s unrest because she does not make any more records for the V. T. M. Co." In 1939, however, she appeared on an American radio broadcast and selected some of her better recordings to play to listeners, speaking with little modesty about their merits. Eames' voice was also captured 'live' during an actual performance at the Met in 1903, on some primitive recordings which have become known as the Mapleson Cylinders. She sings (impressively) fragments of Tosca on these cylinders.
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As the bill was nonetheless being passed during the evening hours of March 9, 2011, Miller commented acidly, "In 30 minutes, 18 senators undid 50 years of civil rights". A series of recall elections followed the Budget Repair Bill controversy, as Democrats were targeted for leaving the state and Republicans were targeted for the legislation itself. Miller was one of the senators subject to a recall movement. Organizers of the recall came within 268 votes of recalling him and had the option of merging their signatures with those collected by the Utah-based group American Patriot Recall Coalition in order to meet the minimum number of signatures required.
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Margolis wrote: Jonathan S. Tobin in The Jerusalem Post gave Buchanan's book a negative review and suggested the author is anti-Semitic and representative of a "malevolent" form of appeasement. American writer Adam Kirsch, in The New York Sun, attacked Buchanan for using no primary sources, and for saying there was a conspiracy by historians to hide the truth about the two world wars. Kirsch acidly remarked if that was the case, Buchanan did not need only secondary sources to support his arguments. Kirsch accused Buchanan of hypocrisy for denouncing Churchill as a racist who was opposed to non-white immigration to Britain but demanding the same in the United States.
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At the same time she pressed for an improvement in the working conditions of seamstresses, shop assistants, and domestics, with adequate safeguards against poverty and the problems of old age. She must have been a compelling advocate; according to contemporary evidence, “… one of the most fluent and accurate speakers we have listened to in the colonies”. In 1875 Mary Colclough began a campaign in Melbourne. She seems to have met with little success, for, like many feminist reformers of the time, she was well in advance of public opinion. The Argus commented acidly on her efforts to ameliorate the condition of her sex throughout the world and saw no ground “for weeping over the melodramatic misery” of her protéges.
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Tate(1998), pp. 8–9Foulois and Menoher testified together at subcommittee hearings on the bill, at which time Menoher characterized aviators as "temperamental" and suggested that their enthusiasm for an independent air service was the result of a desire for personal promotion, a theme often repeated by numerous opponents of an independent air force over the next two decades. Foulois, a firebrand who later learned to work within the system, had been reduced in rank from brigadier general to captain by the armistice and was stung by the comments. In a solicited statement following Menoher's, he acidly defied the General Staff to name one instance in which it had done anything constructive towards aviation.
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In 1714, as Queen Anne approached death, Burnet became briefly, and in the opinion of his critics, somewhat hysterically concerned about the dire consequences for Protestants if her Catholic half-brother, the Old Pretender, succeeded to the throne. His predictions of doom were received with general scepticism: "Be easy my Lord, and disturb not the peace of your old age with vain imaginings of a second Revolution and a flight to Holland... I am sure you need not die a martyr for your faith" wrote one correspondent acidly. In the event the throne passed peacefully to the Protestant House of Hanover in August 1714, seven months before Burnet's own death.Kenyon, J.P. Revolution Principles Cambridge University Press 1977 pp.
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He is placed under suspension by the force while Frank Sanderman, a prosecutor with a grudge against trigger-happy cops, files manslaughter charges against this one. Setting out on his own to clear his name, Valens meets resistance from many including Ruston's financial adviser, Calvin York, and the doctor's alcoholic and flirtatious widow, Doris Ruston. Also unwilling to be of help to Valens is the doctor's nurse, Liz Thayer, who knew Ruston only as a humanitarian who made many trips to Mexico to unselfishly aid people in need. The controversial cop's lone defender in public is acerbic television personality Perry Knowland, who turns out to be doing so only to increase his viewership (upon learning this Valens acidly tells Knowland, "Be against me, I'd feel cleaner").
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Mixed Doubles: An Entertainment on Marriage (London: Methuen, 1970) is a programme consisting of a series of eight short plays or revue sketches, each with two characters, composed by various English playwrights. It was first performed on 6 February 1969 in the Hampstead Theatre Club with the title, We Who Are About To.... The programme was then presented as Mixed Doubles: An Entertainment on Marriage at the Comedy Theatre, London, on 9 April 1969. The eight dramatic sketches, each portraying marriage at a different stage of life, are linked together by a series of anti-authoritarian monologues written by George Melly. Taken together, the programme presents an acidly humorous image of marriage from the moment of blessing until the silver wedding anniversary.
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López de Ayala is best remembered for his satirical and didactic Libro Rimado de Palacio ("Palace Verse" or "Rhymes of the Court"), in which he acidly describes his contemporaries and their social, religious, and political values. His rhymed confession concerns the Ten Commandments, mortal sins, spiritual works, and the sins associated with the five senses, followed by an account of the evils afflicting the Church. The most famous couplets (424-719) concern "los fechos de Palaçio" ("palace deeds"), which detail the troubles of a courtier who is attempting to collect money that the king owes to him. In one of the first known literary references to chivalresque tales, López de Ayala, in his Rimado de Palacio, would regret a misspent youth: In his Libro de la caza de las aves, López de Ayala attempted to compile all of the correct and available knowledge concerning falconry.
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In season five, although they are separated, with Priya moving back a month earlier than expected, they nonetheless remain in touch via Skype, having a cyber-dinner/breakfast date. At Howard's suggestion, Leonard and Priya also attempt to simulate intercourse, but when it comes time for her to remove her clothing, Leonard's screen freezes up because of his exceeding the bandwidth. Leonard later manages to get cue cards to help himself with a seduction speech to Priya, but while delivering it to her, he inadvertently reveals to her parents that they are cyber-dating (they were in the same room as she when he called), with them acidly asking for him to continue with the speech. In "The Good Guy Fluctiation", Leonard tells Priya about his attraction to a comic- book enthusiast named Alice; Priya admits to cheating on him with her former boyfriend, which visibly upsets Leonard.
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Time magazine was distinctly lukewarm about the book: > While there is meticulous method in [the protagonist's] madness, there is > not nearly enough madness in the narrative methods of Richard Condon (The > Manchurian Candidate). What the author intends is a black comedy on the > peril of an obsessive delusion; what he achieves is a hybrid between > bedroom-comedy pink and olive-drab boredom.... > > Despite clever barbs and lucent epigrams ("Respect is the only successful > aphrodisiac"), Any God Will Do is not as acidly funny as it keeps promising > to be. In the past, Condon cultists have been treated to comic narrative > leaps performed with the agility of a Macedonian goat, and to sly > surrealistic glimpses into the lives of Oedipal wrecks and decent drudges > who turn up naked at the Last Judgment. But in this book much of the elan is > gone; it sometimes appears as if Condon is padding to keep from plotting.
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" Variety's film critic Guy Lodge says in his review that "Few musical genres connote as specifically refined a visual aesthetic as jazz: Alongside those complex, clattering notes, a lot of immaculate lighting, styling and tailoring went into the birth of the cool. So it’s fitting that Kasper Collin’s excellent documentary "I Called Him Morgan," a sleek, sorrowful elegy for the prodigiously gifted, tragically slain bop trumpeter Lee Morgan, is as much a visual and textural triumph as it is a gripping feat of reportage. /.../ Sometimes acidly candid, sometimes foggy, but consistently rueful, Helen Morgan's account of events serves as the film's narrative spine — featured alternately through digitally tidied audio and the muddy whistle of Thomas’ original cassette recordings, as if to demonstrate the ephemeral nature even of the facts in this unhappy slice of history. Collin and his adroit team of editors intercut her testimony with the present- day recollections of a host of Morgan's colleagues and contemporaries, from Wayne Shorter to Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath to Billy Harper.
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In his book, Privacy and the Press, Joshua Rozenberg noted acidly that as French was dead he was now free to write openly about his conduct of the libel claim brought by Albert Reynolds against the Sunday Times, but then restrained himself to saying "all I shall say is that there needs to be a better way of ensuring that judges whose powers are in decline through age or illness do not carry on sitting," and noting that in the Court of Appeal Lord Justice Bingham saw the force in the criticisms made of French's conduct of the trial. Apart from the Sellafield litigation he presided over a number of high-profile libel trials. In 1986 he awarded the London Symphony Orchestra substantial damages over allegations made in Private Eye that its members were "drunk, dissolute, unruly and irresponsible". Other defamation cases that he presided over included those between Alan Sugar and Terry Venables, Imran Khan and Ian Botham, Graeme Souness and the Mail on Sunday, and Albert Reynolds and the Sunday Times.
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