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my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom."
… [It] offers diabolically smart surprises wherever you care to look" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). The wild measures Ripley takes to maintain the charade cause some critics to lose interest in the second half of the film: "When Tom's aberrant qualities become more dangerous, the movie loses its moorings and drifts into a sort of highly polished, implausible melodrama" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Visit the official site.)
The consecutive steps of the permutation validated PCA procedure are shown in Figure 1. In step 1, we perform rank-ordered PCA based on the polished gene expression matrix X (see Materials and methods) by computing separate oneway ANOVAs on the principal components loadings for each of the components.
' The button envisaged would be the polished brass type, traditionally made in Birmingham, which was fashionable at certain periods and standard on British Army uniforms until 1939.
But though pleasant and a polished speaker, he's an intellectual lightweight--and he's certainly not a potential party leader.