Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Financial sophisticates also wondered why Aloisi, of all people, would choose so obvious and primitive a method of doing what wealthy Italians have done for years: illicitly exporting their capital to European countries with stronger currencies. Concern over Italy's perennial political instability, fear of a Communist takeover and a national predilection for tax dodging have led bankers and businessmen to squirrel away an estimated $35 billion abroad since 1945, of which about one-third is illegally exported...
...suited the nature of some ritual objects-images kept in a fixed spot and seen from the front. In general, as the woodcarving tradition developed, artists preferred to assemble their work from segments of wood pinned and jointed together. The Japanese, who did most to develop this method, called it yosegi. In this show, the masterpiece of the technique, borrowed from the Cleveland Museum of Art, is a late 13th century Zen carving of a priest, the Hoto Kokushi (literally, Lamp-of-the-Law National Teacher) Muhon Kakushin...
Since the mechanism of choice can be, and has been, adjusted each year to meet the needs of the system and its participants, there is nothing irreversible in the selection of one assignment method over another in any given year. For the assignment to Houses of the present freshman class, I anticipate further adjustments to the current choice-based system. A limited choice system, wherein students would list perhaps three choices of Houses, is under consideration. Concurrently, various methods of preassignment will be carefully evaluated as a means of bringing about an earlier student identification with particular Houses. It would...
...consists of ten sonnets, ingeniously sliced into 14 strips. By flipping the strips left or right, the reader can construct 1014 intelligible poems. OuLiPo's lunatic fringework also included spoonerisms-deliberate slips of the tongue that gave different leanings to mexicons. Tales were written by the "decision tree" method used in programming computers, presenting the reader with choices. For example, Queneau's A Tale in Your Own Fashion begins, "Do you wish to hear the story of the three alert little beans? If yes, jump to 4. If not, jump to 2." Picking 4, the reader continues, "Once...
...labor-intensive method designed for countries where labor is abundant. A two-ton tractor, by contrast, would require a peasant family's entire income just to keep it in gasoline and thirty-weight...