Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exactly how the lands will be sold to the public remains to be determined. The White House has not decided whether to do it by sealed bids, public auction or some other method. "It is clear that we'll have to go beyond what's been done in the past," says Edwin Harper, the President's assistant for policy development and chairman of the Property Review Board. "We can't just put an ad in the newspaper and see what responses come...
...occasional wasted screen moments, a certain sympathy with his troubles. When his last marriage, to his wife of the past 16 years, the former Shirlee Adams, turned out happily, and he and his children finally formed a mutual admiration society (though he continued to grump about Jane's Method acting), one shared his obvious pleasure and pride...
There are many, of course, who say that the Yankees and Steinbrenner deserve each other. In any case, the Steinbrenner method sometimes works. When he bought the team from CBS in 1973, the Yankees were a second-division mediocrity living on memories, like faded aristocrats. With his fierce, admirable though slightly crazed will to win, Steinbrenner brought the Yankees out of their trance. In the new era of the free agent, he spent handsomely for Reggie Jackson and other stars. Steinbrenner's Yankees took five pennants and two world championships...
Stan, a married man in his 30s who chases women in Manhattan bars, has his own patented method of checking for herpes. When the chitchat has moved far enough along that the woman is peering his way with bedroom eyes, he caresses her right hand, then presses his thumb sharply down on her wrist and barks: "You have herpes, don't you?" "If her pulse jumps, she has it," he says. "If she doesn't, she just laughs." Sometimes, of course, a woman is offended by his personalized lie-detector test. "I lose a few women that way," he says...
...director (Paul Eddington), who divides his time between lechery and Valium. He has to cope with a woozy old ham (Michael Aldridge) who makes only two kind of entrances: pre-cue and post-cue. "I thought I heard my voice," he says blearily. And then there is the Stanislavski Method actor who wants a profound psychological reason as to why he has to exit with a plate of sardines...