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Word: methodic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hands Across America's bid to put 5.4 million people in a line 4152 miles across the United States on May 25 was show-business promoter Ken Kragen's method of gathering donations, publicity and corporate support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hands Across USA Won't Link Nation | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...that she might improve her standing in society, mourns loudly over the disastrous course she has chosen. She remembers instead how her father and Rajee agreed to her marriage after she had poured kerosene over her clothes and prepared to set herself on fire: "It is a crude method and perhaps not suitable for a college girl like me, but it was the only way I could think of and also the easiest and cheapest, so I decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tributes of Empathy and Grace Out of India | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...accordance with the laws of equal representation, this film picks on everyone. Most of the nations of Western Europe, the United States, the leaders of above nations, capitalists. Marxist revolutionaries, Live Aid, and yuppies are among the targets selected. This buck shot method of comedy provides no focus, but throw out enough gags, and some of them are bound to stick...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Drinks, Anyone? | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

...work on methods for combining information from different sources and resolving controversies that arise. I also developed a method for analyzing problems [with] missing data," Laird said...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: SPH Tenures 3 Junior Faculty Members | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

Foley gives his actors a lot of rope, and the option of lassoing their characters or hanging themselves. Within the strictures and excesses of Method acting, most of them do just fine. Christopher Penn (Sean's brother) is good as a slow wit with a long fuse; Eileen Ryan (Sean's and Christopher's mother) plays their grandma as a silent witness against familial treachery. Masterson has a face and a talent worth watching. Walken, flashing Faginese charm across his splendidly wasted face, is a monster any son could find walking into his nightmares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is This the Family Gun, Dad? At Close Range | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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