Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...militant filmmaker in service of the revolution, and the meaning of his films derives entirely from their participation in the class struggle. But here the Dziga-Vertov group sees a problem where conventional filmmakers see none, and that problem is in the very nature of political art. The method of conventional political films--Costa-Gavras' Z and The Confession, Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers -- is to assume that the way to political commitment is through faithful depiction of political reality. So they select an important event and recreate it on screen, aiming to provoke a specific chain of emotions...
...requires some candor to admit that policy decisions are usually not made through application of the scientific method, in which facts are gathered, and integrating theory is developed, the theory is tested, and finally the policy which that theory dictates is put into practice. Regretfully, a policy maker seldom has sufficient facts at his disposal to use the scientific method fruitfully. Facts are expensive to gather; policy makers lack sufficient time to digest all the facts, even if they are gathered; and, the accuracy of supposed facts is always subject to question. Most importantly, the press of time is always...
...city's controversial rent control law. Some candidates may espouse or oppose the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority's plan to convert Kendall Square into a commercial district in order to woo business or working class interests respectively. Cambridge's Plan E reform system of government and its complex proportional representation method of voting, which Independents and conservatives claim has worked against them in the past, could again be an issue this year...
Gill said she provided the FBI with "any information that threatened city, personal or national security." She declined to reveal the names of her contacts at either intelligence organization. She said she "worked alone" in the field, and she declined to discuss her method of operation...
...refusal to allocate funds is one method by which CPB can manipulate public broadcasting. Circulating among public TV stations is the fear that CPB will go one step further--to content censorship. Sylvia Davis, Channel 2's Public Relations Director, stated recently that "though WGBH airs more controversial programs than anyone else, we will not submit to content censorship...