Sad to say, multi-tasking is beyond me. I read one book at a time all the way through. If I’m reviewing the book, I have to write the review before I start reading any other book. I especially hate it when the phone rings and interrupts my train of thought.
It’s time to review what damage the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has done to our political system.
In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.
I love Groupon. I just got a pedicure because of Groupon, and it was the best pedicure ever. I’m going to write a review!
It was very, very difficult to be a student in the drama department and also review my professors’ school shows. I got a lot of pressure from them to quit the paper and concentrate on studying dramatic literature.
We’ve played on ‘Saturday Night Live’ and got not even a Rolling Stone review.
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.
I read every review online, and I want to respond to those, but I resist the urge to do that.
How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it’s mostly about the reviewer!
Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should have a zero risk weighting.
Somebody the other day had a review, called me ‘America’s reprobate.’ And I don’t even know what that means, but I kinda like the way it sounds.
When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R’s: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written.
I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked from them. A 15-year-old can write a review on the Internet and it means as much as Roger Ebert’s review, and that just makes Roger Ebert mad, so he comes out harder and stronger.
Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you’re in the Army is like reading a bad review.
We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.
Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: ‘A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.’ Do they? I had no idea.
Everything will have a Yelp review. And if you’re a worker, there will be like credit scores. There already are to some extent. How reliable are you? How many jobs have you had? Have there been lawsuits filed against you? How many traffic tickets?
Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review.
The value of Eric Foner’s ‘The Fiery Trial’ lies in its comprehensive review of mostly familiar material; in its sensible evaluation of the full range of information already available about Abraham Lincoln and slavery; and in the deft thoroughness of its scholarship.
Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn’t suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?
I was always part of the end-of-term review at school. We would mercilessly mock any slight weakness in the teachers.
I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It’s corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists.
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
I’ve always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read ‘National Review’ and I would read ‘The Nation’ and I would read ‘The American Spectator’ and I would read ‘Mother Jones.’
If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It’s not like a viral video that can spread across the world in a matter of minutes, so as a result, each market is almost an island unto itself.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.
As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the missions of service and teaching instead. The potential rewards for our country, now that that early choice has led him into the White House, are enormous.
Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page.
Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
I write the occasional entry for the ‘Times’ Theatre blog, especially when I’m in London and seeing two shows a day, but I don’t tweet. I don’t want to have to express my opinion in 140 characters. That’s like writing haiku. You need a certain amount of legroom to review a play properly.
Just like only qualified people should work in films, only qualified people should review the film.
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
At the end of the day, I sit down for about five minutes and review all the problems I’m working on, research problems or writing problems, and I go to sleep. Then when I wake up in the morning, I’ve trained myself to not open my eyes and to just lie there and recall the problems and see if there’s anything there.
I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures.
I published my first poem in ‘The Paris Review’ in 1980.
But in another, I think a woman’s going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don’t think she’s not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn’t even read.
If a writer I represent gets a bad or unfair review, I suffer. I’m upset and outraged and do everything I can to try and change that. But I would never do that on behalf of my own book because I wouldn’t expect my writers to do that.
If judicial review means anything, it is that judicial restraint does not allow everything.
Like many American readers, I was first introduced to Magda Szabo’s work when New York Review Books reissued the Hungarian master’s profound and haunting novel ‘The Door.’
The products I review are typically lent to me by their manufacturers for a few weeks or months. I return any products I am lent for review, except for items of minor value that companies typically don’t want back. In the case of these items, I either discard them or give them away to charity.
If some part of the review is true, those are the ones that sting.
I review all the riders for my music clients and make sure there’s healthy food and snack options, like strained yogurt, fresh berries, and lean protein.
If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, ‘Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.’ And that’s as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, ‘Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.’
Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another.
I started writing when I was 11. In my late teens, I was writing short stories of every conceivable type and sent them to everything from ‘Future Science Fiction’ to ‘The Sewanee Review.’
I love photographs. I love taking photographs. When I see something that’s great, I want to capture that. You put it out there and on a place like Instagram you can put it there and review it later.
While the Pentagon ultimately awards military contracts, there is a reason for the review process. The Senate’s subcommittee on Military Construction’s approval carries weight.
If I had my way, I wouldn’t do annual reviews, if I felt that everybody would be more honest about positive and negative feedback along the way. I think the annual review process is so antiquated.
