Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McGwire on the phone the night he had become the first player to hit 50 homers for three seasons--and McGwire never mentioned it. "I was watching SportsCenter, and I said, 'He didn't even tell me,'" Milner says. McGwire also coped with the stress through a mysterious method of visualization that Dickson taught him, which sounds a lot like phone sex but less fun. "Over the phone before he goes to sleep, you just tell him stories and take him out of it," she explains...
...knot in a religious ceremony on Sunday on the island of St. Barts--if he made it to the church. It's been a big year for the 41-year-old Simmons: his company scored major hits, including best-selling albums by rappers JAY-Z, DMX and METHOD MAN. Def Jam expects revenues to hit $190 million for 1998. Simmons' bride is 23-year-old model KIMORA LEE, host of his TV show, One World Music Beat. The two already had a modest civil ceremony in New York City. But even millionaires get wedding blues. Simmons missed a connecting flight...
...supplemental reading (in addition to required textbooks) for districts to choose from, but most others leave the decisions solely up to local districts. In some places, novels have largely been shunned in favor of anthologies of excerpts or simply the "drill and kill" of paragraphs followed by questions, a method meant to prepare kids for the almighty state tests. Teachers who are able to wrangle money for literature are advised to choose from lists put out by the likes of the American Library Association or peruse review journals. But that means extra reading and legwork after long days; often teachers...
...Wilson claimed Radcliffe is trying to reach out to students, citing Radcliffe's Web page, which will soon undergo an extensive overhaul as one method. Wilson noted that mouse pads have been distributed to students that are printed with the Web page address...
...reason: it's never been done. Another: Psycho, which spawned a festering genre of slasher films, has been ripped off a zillion times--surely it can be remade just this once. And finally: let's set a test for today's actors, encrusted with decades of Method mannerisms. Can they assimilate the smooth delivery of the 1960 cast...