Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the distressed farmers are suffering because they have planted thirsty crops -- rice, cotton, alfalfa -- that would not be economical to grow in the first place if water cost more. Farmers also typically use the most wasteful method of irrigation: ditches. The drip method, which supplies water in needed quantities to each plant, uses about 20% less water than ditches, but as long as water is cheap, farmers have no reason to spend the money to install drip systems. Says Richard Howitt, professor of agricultural economics at the University of California at Davis: "We should be treating water like...
Although the practice has died down recently, teenage judges presided over so-called people's courts that almost casually handed out death sentences to suspected traitors. A youth invention that has not disappeared is "necklacing," the method of mob execution in which a gasoline-doused rubber tire is thrown around a suspected traitor's body and set ablaze...
...Morrow finds subtle shadings in all these parts: the put-upon homeowner in Heart of Midnight, the woozy Delta princess in Sister Sister, the victimized trollop Tra-La-La in Last Exit to Brooklyn and, triumphantly, the pathetic young prostitute in Miami Blues. A ferocious student in the Method tradition, Leigh has crammed for everything but stardom. That too will come, if she gets some of the luck denied to the characters she makes sizzle on-screen...
Uniformity of opinion on such a sensitive question is unlikely, and the Arts page would like to hear your opinions. Does lingering racism necessitate artistic affirmative action? Is proportional minority representation an acceptable method of judging a particular cultural institution? Please send submissions to: Arts Editor, The Harvard Crimson, 14 Plympton St., Cambridge, Mass...
...member of a so-called "historically oppressed group," i claim every right to challenge a label I deem unfair to many individuals of that of that or any other minority group. Even if it requires resorting to a controversial method of self-expression in order to provoke a response...