For smaller projects, I rely on my (fair to middling) knife skills.
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Yeah, but you were, and you did a fair to middling job.
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Sure, the sound is only fair to middling, but Apple made them ridiculously convenient.
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Something akin to a fair-to-middling algebra student being dropped into a multivariable calculus seminar.
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So he hypothesized that Snitker the player must have been a fair-to-middling minor leaguer, too.
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I was a fair to middling freestyler, but I really excelled on the one-meter diving board.
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"FAIR to middling" is a common enough phrase, and there are others at which you can take an educated guess.
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Most people drank fair to middling soju, and soju distillers were making bricks without straw by using tapioca instead of rice.
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While All the Money in the World is garnering fair to middling reviews from critics (including me), many reviews praise Williams's and Plummer's performances.
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But the net record is a fair-to-middling miracle, carried out by a man who for much of his short term was dying, in considerable discomfort.
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Life is tough for skilled if unremarkable actresses like Eliza Dushku, who, despite early success, can be left foraging among fair-to-middling television series and forgettable movies.
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In the period between Walt Disney's death in 1966 and the ostensible renaissance signaled by "The Little Mermaid" (1989), the Walt Disney film studio released dozens of fair-to-middling children's entertainments.
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Viewers, however, are unlikely to be more than marginally amused by its fair-to-middling acting, enervated plot and forcibly diverse group of drifting souls gathered on the fictional Greek island of Khronos.
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Rangy in a way that can be kittenish, then knockabout, then adolescent-seeming, she's a fair-to-middling actress vocally, but a totally electrifying one when speaking in the language of the body.
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Every time I see a fair-to-middling production of a brilliant play by the irreplaceable Sam Shepard , who died in 2017, at the age of seventy-three, I leave the theatre with conflicted feelings.
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With the explosion of furry superstars in the past decade, many pet owners with fair to middling social followings (but very cute and special pets!) are wondering how they, too, can get in on the action.
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This grid has a lot of constraints on it, which may be the reason for the fair-to-middling fill, although I liked the revealer and the long Downs, GRATUITOUS and the debut of ANGIE'S LIST.
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The reason is obvious: somehow, Belgium, a country of just 11 million people, one with a generally unremarkable soccer pedigree and a fair-to-middling national league, has stumbled upon an astonishing production line of talent.
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The leader grunts and grinds out his own sinister version of the same song, their discordant duet joined remotely by the woman's ex-husband in the Foreign Legion, also now a seasoned killer and a fair-to-middling baritone.
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Answers: Endgame: "Mona Bone Jakon" by Cat Stevens; Rockaby: "Elvis Presley" by Elvis Presley; Dreams of Fair to Middling Women: "Pieces of Eight" by Styx; Waiting for Godot: "In the Wee Small Hours" by Frank Sinatra; Krapp's Last Tape: "Guardians of the Galaxy Original Soundtrack" by Various Artists; Rough for Radio: "Radio-Activity" by Kraftwerk; More Pricks Than Kicks: "Sticky Fingers" by the Rolling Stones; Ohio Impromptu: "Gene Krupa and His Orchestra" by Gene Krupa.
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Dream of Fair to Middling Women is Samuel Beckett’s first novel. Written in English "in a matter of weeks" in 1932 when Beckett was only 26 and living in Paris, the clearly autobiographical novel was rejected by publishers and shelved by the author. The novel was eventually published in 1992, three years after the author's death.
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She had many admirers due to her outgoing nature, including Denis Johnston and Samuel Beckett. MacCarthy appears in Beckett's Dream of fair to middling women as "the Abla", and is said to have been the inspiration for the girl in the punt in Krapp's last tape. MacCarthy is reputed to have been Beckett's first love. Johnston wrote the poem To Ethna for her.
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When Berryhill did not return to the 1921 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, sports writer Ferguson "Fuzzy" Woodruff wrote "While prospects seem fair to middling in most of the big southern colleges, there are two notable exceptions. Dan McGugin expects nothing of Vanderbilt this year. Dan has lost Berryhill, his only reliable backfield man, through the matrimonial route." Berryhill graduated with an MD from Vanderbilt University in 1921.
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Knowlson feels "that there is little doubt the source for the girl with the haunting eyes is Ethna MacCarthy. For, as Dream of Fair to Middling Women had made clear ... the 'Alba', who, on Beckett’s own admission, was closely modelled on Ethna, had eyes like dark, deep pools."Interview with James Knowlson, 13 September 1989, qtd. in James Knowlson, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (London: Bloomsbury, 1996) 443.
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On the other hand, Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that Jay-Z shows up "as calmly boastful as ever" in the song but he only makes Beyoncé's "sound more insecure". Kelefa Sanneh of the same publication noted that "the refrain doesn't give Beyoncé a chance really to show off" and further described the song as a "fair-to-middling single from a singer who is the opposite of desperate".
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More Pricks Than Kicks is a collection of short prose by Samuel Beckett, first published in 1934. It contains extracts from his earlier novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women (for which he was unable to find a publisher), as well as other short stories. The stories chart the life of the book's main character, Belacqua Shuah, from his days as a student to his accidental death. Beckett takes the name Belacqua from a figure in Dante's Purgatorio, a Florentine lute-maker famed for his laziness, who has given up on ever reaching heaven.
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Murphy, first published in 1938, is an avant-garde novel as well as the third work of prose fiction by the Irish author and dramatist Samuel Beckett. The book was Beckett's second published prose work after the short-story collection More Pricks than Kicks (published in 1934) and his unpublished first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women (published posthumously in 1992). It was written in English, rather than the French of much of Beckett's later writing. After many rejections, it was published by Routledge on the recommendation of Beckett's painter friend Jack Butler Yeats.
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Samuel Beckett, whose favorite reading was Dante, closely identified with Belacqua and his indolence. Beckett introduced ‘Belacqua Shuah’ as the main character in his first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Unpublishable at the time, Beckett tried again, with More Pricks Than Kicks, a collection of ten interrelated short stories on the life and death of Belacqua, and this was published, although a very poor seller. Beckett makes the Dante connection explicit in the first story, ‘Dante and the Lobster’: Belacqua is studying Dante. An eleventh story, ‘Echo's Bones’ was unpublishable at the time.
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Variety wrote "With exception of the denouement, director Phil Karlson reins his cast in a grim atmosphere that develops momentum through succeeding reels. Payne delivers an impressive portrayal of an unrelenting outsider who cracks the ring. Time magazine said the film "combines a 'perfect crime' plot with some fair-to-middling moviemaking ... Obviously, the 'confidential' of the title does not refer to the picture's plot, which is a very model of transparency." Bosley Crowther of The New York Times was not a fan, writing that Kansas City Confidential "appears designed--not too adroitly--just to stimulate the curious and the cruel.
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Vidya is one of the senior staff members at this fair to middling educational institution, which has thus far functioned smoothly under the able hands of Principal Indu Shastry (Zarina Wahab). Everything changes with the appointment of the new principal. The teachers face unpleasant surprises when the popular and considerate Indu is replaced by the ambitious and cut-throat Kamini, who aspires to upscale this middle-class school. Teachers' chairs are removed from the classrooms, the tea is no longer free and subjects are juggled so that, for example, the overweight Hindi teacher is now assigned physical training spoiling the whole dynamics of the school.
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He said, 'I'll tell you what, we have rehearsal here at 10 o'clock every morning – get permission from your Commanding officer and come on around here tomorrow morning so we can audition you.' Well, the next day, I got my Don Reinhardt Mouthpiece out of my sea bag and grabbed a trombone from somewhere and they brought over a pianist and a fair to middling drummer and a bass player and said, 'Well, what do you want to kick off?' So I thought a second and remembered we had played in junior high something called 'Honeysuckle Rose,' in the key of F, so I said, 'How about Honeysuckle Rose, in the key of F?' And he said, 'Great.
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One Life to Live initially enjoyed fair-to-middling ratings, but rose rapidly as it entered the 1970s, along with the rest of ABC's daytime lineup. Matters greatly improved for One Life to Live in 1972, when CBS relocated The Edge of Night in response to packager Procter and Gamble's demands. The four-year-old show topped the ratings for the first time over CBS' declining The Secret Storm, and later, the game Hollywood's Talking, which ran for only 13 weeks. By 1975, NBC became a serious player in that time slot for the first time in over five years when it expanded its strong soap opera Another World to an hour, with its second half occupying the 3:30 timeslot.
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Beckett's biographer James Knowlson described book 'as among the most important to appear on Beckett in the past two decades,' stating how it 'reveals the very Irishness of much of Beckett's landscape and restores the Irish 'feel' to some of the characters of his plays.' In the same year O'Brien co-authored with James Knowlson, The Beckett Country: catalogue of an exhibition for Samuel Beckett's eightieth birthday. This large 40 panel exhibition, which is now on permanent loan to the James Joyce Library in University College Dublin, was opened at Reading University in 1986 with readings by Ronald Pickup and the late Dame Peggy Ashcroft. O’Brien has written many essays on the writings of Samuel Beckett, his most recent book The Weight of Compassion contains essays on his relationship with the writer. In 2011, he participated in a production by Brian O’Doherty in the National Gallery of Ireland, Hello Sam, an installation and performance piece in dialogue with Beckett and his work. At Beckett's request, O’Brien edited with Edith Fournier and published posthumously Beckett's first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women in 1992.
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