If I were called upon to defend it, I would present three exhibits: "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925), directed by Sergei Eisenstein; "The Untouchables" (1987), directed by Brian De Palma; and "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" (1994), which was hardly directed at all.
Stress-induced mutations, whether point mutations including small indels including SOS repair or large indels in the form of mobile genetic elements constitute a crude machinery, at best, but hardly directed.
The Greco-Latin "Erectile dysfunction" is hardly direct; the word penis is never mentioned, and dysfunction is pretty highfalutin for something that simply isn't working as it should.And the technical-looking, Greco-Latin name offers up another avenue.
It arrives with the long-familiar dose of guilt by association (with Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Edward Said, and Roberto Mangabeira Unger), as well as by the newly adduced association (largely psychological, hardly direct) with Obama's father.
However, when it comes to multi-facet, hardly direct measurable issues like logistics performance and seaborne trade, the essence to develop latent constructs using multiple observed indicators becomes relevant.
Zadek hardly ever directed German classics or Brecht, favouring mavericks such as Frank Wedekind or moderns like Tankred Dorst.
His remarks were hardly ever directed at Sarah Palin herself -- instead he focused on John McCain, the real target in this election.
Mr Brown's budget was hardly awash with initiatives directed specifically at women, though it did include an increase in the Working Family's Tax Credit to help out low-paid women on maternity leave and a £100 increase in the maternity grant.
But "managing" and "directing" hardly begin to describe the salvage operation Mr. Steel faces in trying to stabilize this scrappy, adventurous, financially tottering company, which has been reeling since November, when the board abruptly parted ways with Gerard Mortier, then the director-designate.
Political publications have been the engine room of such speculation, with Politico calling the Palin connection a "raging debate" around a website, now since taken down, that showed Gifford's district as target in the last elections: hardly a direct incitement to violence.
But "The Dilemma," written by Allan Loeb and directed by Ron Howard — hardly a name associated with frat-boy yukfests — is not entirely what it appears to be.
