His visual choices can feel borrowed and clichéd, but his regard for beauty often compensates for his blunders, as does the sturdy, reliable appeal of another story of good and evil, men and women, light and dark, glass and steel, sex and power.
It discusses authority at length, identifying four conditions for reliable appeals to authority and maintaining that the failure of any one of them cancels the strength of the appeal.
This was the first fast-food revolution — the mass production of food that had reliable mass appeal.
Judges should presume that the government's evidence was reliable, the appeals court ruled, in effect shifting to the detainee the burden of refuting that presumption.
All that means added pressure for installers and new requirements for a job that traditionally appealed to high-school graduates looking for reliable blue-collar work.
But Mr. Chang said that neither of these options particularly appealed to him, and that D.S.L. access is slower and less reliable than cable modem access.
Compaq has appealed the ruling.
