"I found it [economics] such a morose subject, so bonecrushingly boring, so much reliant on third rate mathematics.
Johansen referred to Rundgren as "an expert on second rate rock 'n' roll", but also said that "we were kind of persona non grata, at the time, with most producers.
The inadequacies don't vanish when one learns that the movie was based on first-rate research and an eyewitness report — "Inside Hitler's Bunker," by the historian Joachim Fest, perhaps the leading German expert on Hitler's life, and "Until the Final Hour," by Traudl Junge, who became one of Hitler's private secretaries at the age of twenty-two, and stayed with him to the end.
Some of the violence is on first-rate shows.
The rest of the wine list is equally mouthwatering, and the food, all based on first-rate ingredients, is pretty terrific, too.
They worked, ad executives said, because Mrs. Helmsley and her insistence on first-rate service gave the Helmsley hotels a personality.
The Diner is true to its name, serving eggy French toast, grilled cheese sandwiches, club sandwiches, Cobb salads, burgers and pork chops, all based on first-rate ingredients, available 24/7.
With more than 40 million children playing organized sports — often on first-rate travel teams — more students are graduating from high school with extensive athletic interest and skills than ever before.
The battle that this production dramatizes is not the toll of economic forces on society but the toll of Elliott's mediocre imagination on first-rate performers — Alan Cumming, Cyndi Lauper, Ana Gasteyer, and Jim Dale among them.
The country's defence-procurement system is rotten and dependent on second-rate state-owned firms.
It isn't Christmas, by the way, just in case you rely on second-rate liveblogs of films on television to tell you what time of year it is.
