Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ongoing conversations with graduate students across campus, the necessity of making safe choices, career and otherwise, has been a recurring theme. During a discussion of the benefits and disadvantages of the Socratic method of teaching in American law schools with a 3L, I asked about the Oedipal thrill which must underlie intellectual jousting with a law professor...
...Asian audience gasps at these scenes but never doubts them, because everyone knows Jackie does his own stunts-including some (the coals, the peppers, the industrial alcohol) that suggest Method acting taken to the edge of madness. Lest doubts linger, his films provide instant replays from different angles. Under the closing credits are outtakes showing blown stunts, with comic or near tragic results. Executing a fairly routine jump in Yugoslavia for The Armour of God, he missed a tree branch, hit his head on a rock and almost died. Chan has a memento of the accident: a thimble-size hole...
...third approach, called chemical mismatch cleavage, is as accurate as the resolvase method but is not widely used because it requires chemicals which are either explosive or mutagenic...
Clinically, the technique can be used to let patients know whether or not they are predisposed to breast cancer and other hereditary disorders. But Mashal said the method is not 100 percent accurate, as most patients would prefer...
Vamps & Tramps is an apt title, and not just because, as the author writes, it ``evokes the missing sexual personae of contemporary feminism''-- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject, and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in ``the feminist establishment,'' and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon rights. Is she fair? Nah--fair...