Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sake -- no drawings by Caravaggio survive -- and was a passionate student of the 16th century grand manner, whose defining masters were Michelangelo and Raphael. Their works, he said, "demand to be studied and meditated over many times. For though we now paint following a different course and method, if it is not established upon this kind of study, ((our)) painting may easily end in ruin." This is why Michelangelesque poses often recur in Ribera's early work, such as the half- ruined, still impressive Crucifixion, circa 1625, whose twisting Christ is based directly on a famous Michelangelo drawing...
Miller often used four letter words, and offensive terms such as "dyke," "fag," or "half-man," but his method of delivering them, and his acceptance of them as a matter of course somehow reclaimed them from obscenity...when he talked about his experience as "a young fag in love, scared shitless," it was touching and funny, never discomfiting...
...just learning that politicians say one thing to get elected and do something entirely different once they win? Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt both promised to shrink the government's powers when campaigning, and both men expanded those powers as President. The politician is evasive if not duplicitous? The method of choosing candidates is arbitrary if not corrupt? The candidate hides his or her real views while trying to please diverse constituencies? All that has been true of our politics from the beginning, and never more true than in the case of the man who is more revered than...
...past, the tiny scraps of ancient DNA that can be found in mummified tissue would have been far too small to study. But a relatively new genetic- engineering method called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can clone enough copies for scientists to examine the DNA in detail. They can then compare ancient genes to modern ones. That gives researchers another perspective on how evolution has changed a given species, beyond what can be learned by the traditional method of studying changes in body structure...
...Peace Prize" went to former Los Angeles police chief Daryl F. Gates of or his "uniquely compelling method of bringing people togther." Stan Goldberg of Crimson Tech camera store accepted the prize for Gates and discussed the revolutionary importance of the video camera in today's world...