Word: forgoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hoffman, Jane Fonda, John Garfield, Al Pacino, Sidney Poitier, Eli Wallach, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Strasberg's technique, the so-called Method, was inspired by a system developed by the Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky. Through the use of physical and emotional exercises, Strasberg taught his pupils to forgo external acting tricks and "internalize" roles, drawing on reservoirs of their own experience and feeling. Strasberg's disciples called him "Rabbi," "Pope" and "the ultimate shrink," and swore by him. His detractors, who accused him of starting "the torn T shirt school of acting," swore at him. Said Producer...
Many people believe that cats are so biologically programmed for survival in the wilderness that they cannot be trained. While unaltered cats are almost impossible to work with, say the experts, food and affection-heavy on the food, please-will help teach most house cats to forgo clawing the couch and spraying. With the patience usually given only to holy men-plus more food-felines can also be tutored in the arts of sitting on command, lying down and rolling over. Some proud owners have even instructed their cats to eat daintily with their paws directly from the food...
...nuclear war. It was designed both to reassure the Europeans of his Administration's peaceful intentions and to put the Soviets on the defensive. The essence of his message was what has become known in diplomatic parlance as the "zero option." Reagan announced that the U.S. would forgo plans to place 572 new medium-range missiles in Europe if the Soviets would scrap comparable nuclear missiles they have deployed against Western Europe in the past decade. That done, the number of medium-range missiles aimed by each foe at its potential enemy would indeed be zero...
...missed the essence of Musashi's philosophy. He advocates clearing the mind of thoughts of life and death so that the fencer can concentrate on strategies that become spontaneous. Similarly, Japanese businessmen forgo short-term profit so that they can concentrate on product perfection, long-term maneuvers and economic victory. We read the book some time ago, and have found the principles most effective in representing our Japanese clients in the U S. market...
...Freudian euphoria. Says a Manhattan ballerina: "It makes you shiver in tune with the raw, volcanic energy of New York. It bleeds your sense till you see the city as an epileptic rainbow, trembling at the speed of light." Test programs at U.C.L.A. have shown that lab monkeys will forgo both food and sex in favor of an injection of a cocaine solution...