Today, however, the majority employs the neutrality criterion in a way that renders it impossible to understand.
He has been in the Senate only two years, and his selection could undermine Mr. Gore's repeated assertion that the most important criterion in a running mate is that the person be ready to take over from day one.
Criterion, in a new partnership with IFC Films, will release Arnaud Desplechin's 2008 feature, "A Christmas Tale" (Nov. 10), with a teeming cast (including Catherine Deneuve, her real-life daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, and Mathieu Amalric) in a story of conflicts at a family reunion.
But, frankly, Edith is not so desperate that she would turn up at the Criterion in a dress split to the thigh (would such a dress even exist in 1922?) and eat the married editor's face in broad daylight, even if his wife is a certified lunatic.
Typical was a letter from Fiona Crosby, of West Yorkshire: "When is Mrs Whitehouse going to realise that we parents are the best judges of what is suitable viewing for our children?" Yes, Mrs Crosby, that would be the best criterion in a perfectly ordered household.
One of the best, however—"La Chienne" (The Bitch), his second sound film, from 1931 is newly available from Criterion, in a set that contains a superb extra, a meandering, rollicking, and revealing hour-and-a-half-long interview with Renoir and the film's star, Michel Simon, filmed in 1966 and directed by Jacques Rivette, in which Renoir spotlights some of the key principles of his art.
Technology moves on, but the message still holds: the endless re-examination of futility leads only to more futility, not meaning or effectiveness.Kirk Templeton San FranciscoSay it as simply as possibleSIR – Congratulations on managing to use the phrase "preponderant criterion" in a chart ("On your marks", November 9th).
It can be applied as a testing criterion in a testing process that is automated.
It is combined to a recently published stopping criterion in a traditional forward feature selection procedure.
A directional crack growth criterion in a compressed elastic perfectly plastic material is considered.
We present the selection criterion and also give a low-complexity method to realize this criterion in a distributed manner.
