Neil MacGregor, formerly director of the National Gallery, and now director of the British Museum, is full of praise for Sir Denis's astuteness in establishing the intrinsic worth of the school of 16th Century Italian Baroque paintings that had long been neglected, and has commended his ability "to find meaning in works of art we had written off, works we had thought were empty".
"This is about writing off working class children educationally," Reay says.
This, together with his gargantuan output - he was working right up to his Aids-related death, aged 31, in 1990 - led to an overexposure that has caused some to write off his work as at best mere graphics, at worst tacky doodles.
Don't write off their work from these eras as "weird" or "not worth listening to", though, because it's exactly the opposite!
Yes, they're a world-famous band, but many people write off their work from more experimental eras without even listening to it.
November 2013: The Guardian reveals ministers have been presented with a radical plan, detailed in more than 150 pages of leaked documents, to restart UC and write off £119m of work over the past three years.
As I fall into a 30percentt federal and state bracket, the additional write-off works out to a savings of $600 -- not monumental moola, but likely enough to cover several sumptuous spreads of my favorite paella at a Zagat-recommended restaurant.
People in our generation have a tendency to write off everybody who works at a major label as being some sort of bloodsucking vulture, but the crew selected for the panel were all pretty legit and erudite and seemingly not evil.
They can legally write off payment for office work done by family members, even if they're in middle school.
Not content to write off Rankin's literary work, the 35-year-old former cricketer, who helped England to a stunning Ashes victory in 2005, went on to diss the 53-year-old author's mugshot.
