Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eight days and nights in autumn 1997, the actors were effectively on their own. They shot all the footage, as their characters were putatively doing, and invented their dialogue. Says Myrick: "We took the Method approach to the acting and the filming over eight straight days, 24-7." The directors were usually out of sight and hearing from their stars. Each day they would leave notes in a box for each actor; they gave general instructions--clues, really--on what to do. If Mike were to confess he'd jettisoned the map, the others wouldn't know until he said...
...include an ingenue fresh off the bus from Ohio (Heather Graham) who doesn't know much about Hollywood except that a girl is supposed to sleep her way to the top, which she's up for; a failed leading lady (Christine Baranski), boldly living out her frustrated dreams of Method acting in all the wrong places; and a production crew composed of illegal aliens who start out not knowing one end of the camera from the other and end up in learned discussions of how Fellini or Orson Welles might have shot the scene...
...This method has drawn fire from school officials, who said in a report in the Chronicle of Higher Education that the extrapolation resulted in misleading figures...
...This method would potentially give a more accurate reading of which women should be advised to undergo amniocentesis," says TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman. "But among women who might abort rather than give birth to a Down's syndrome baby, if a first-trimester test contains a warning sign, most would be unlikely to want to go through the agony of waiting until the second trimester for a definitive answer. This study contains some interesting clinical observations, but unfortunately what it really shows is that there?s still no conclusive non-invasive test for Down's syndrome...
...Tamils spent the 1950s and 1960s protesting peacefully, following the satyagraha method of peace pioneered by Mahatma Gandhi. The police spent the 1950s and 1960s beating them up. During the 1970s, the LTTE formed. In 1983, open fighting began. My parents grew up in a perpetual state of emergency--random police checkpoints, people disappearing, arrests and imprisonment without cause, questioning without reasonable suspicion...