It received a "B" from Entertainment Weekly, whose Mikael Wood wrote that Atkins "makes for a first-rate correspondent from Anytown, USA".
After the sell-off in bond markets over the past two weeks, prompted by Ben Bernanke's musings about "tapering" QE, investors are predicting a first rate rise from the Bank by the second half of next year.
Based on all of his past books we expect a first rate story from Connelly and this time, like all the others, the man delivers.
Whatever mantras Christine Blower and the NUT trot out primly, there is nothing in a dumbed down, low grade degree from a second rate university which automatically creates a good teacher.
Because of the governor's dealings, LSU transformed from a third rate school in 1930 to the largest university in the south by 1936.
Pursued by a coven of witches apparently transported from a second-rate goth-pop music video from 1985, Sarah encounters a number of fabulous freaks (zombies, psychic lesbians, babbling priests) before facing off with Mater Lacrimarum (Moran Atias), the Mother of Tears herself.
I benefited from a first-rate education and previously had a successful career as a scientist.
But, she added, "In the future, I also would love to see a nominee from a first-rate public law school".
"The Cottage Door" has darkened with age, but it benefited from a first-rate restoration at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 1997, at which point a thick layer of discolored varnish was removed.
The movie was adapted from a first-rate allegorical novel ("La Planète des Singes") by Pierre Boulle, who used it as a way to slap around European class consciousness; the book is part Jane Austen, part Jules Verne and part Céline.
It's a situation that rankles to this day as is clear from a first-rate, two-part BBC Arena documentary (showing on BBC4 on 24 and 31 October) in which Joan Plowright (Lady Olivier) talks darkly of "treachery of the highest order".
