Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Representatives from undergraduate house committees are asking the University to implement a method for evaluating members of the Beverage Authority Team (BAT), which is run by the College, and to require most training of BAT members...
...computer is remote surveillance. Parked just down the block, agents are able to pick up the electromagnetic waves that dance across a suspect's computer screen and convert them back into characters and words on a monitor. They can read everything the suspect is writing. While imaginative, this method is unpopular with law-enforcement authorities because they have to sit and watch the TV screen for weeks or review hours of videotape to see everything a suspect is doing...
...agents probably tapped into Ames' computer with a variation on old- fashioned bugging. One way would have been to enter his home and plant a device in the computer that would broadcast every keystroke. A more efficient method would have been to plant a bug enabling them to turn on the computer from another location, call up the internally stored files and transmit them by either radio or telephone modem to the FBI's waiting machines; the computer and modem would have been turned off by a remote signal. While in his house, the FBI might also have copied...
...autistic, institutionalized brother, Ray (Dustin Hoffman). Cruise said he worked for two years with Dustin Hoffman on the creation of the Academy Award-winning film, Describing the production of "Rainman' as an "intensely personal experience," Cruise talked about his awe for Hoffman's ability to create and, after his Method training, to become Ray Babbitt. Aha, I thought, perhaps Charlie, the guy sporting the black shades and the nifty car, is the real Tom Cruise--cool but anxious, relaxed but burning with anger, confident but clueless...
Brando would have to wait to win his first Best actor award, but he set the standard for modern day Method acting. His infamous cries of "Stelllllaaaaa...Stelllllaaaaa" have rung in the ears of audiences for years. Maybe now their tone will be even more embittered, and one of Blanche's opening lines, "Only Edgar Allen Poe could do justice to it," will finally be true in describing "A Streetcar Named Desire...