Word: methodic
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Though this was a unique method of criticizing his work, the assault on genetic research has sometimes been like this: passionate, premeditated, but maybe driven by anxiety more than anything else. As a society, we tend to be nervous about knowledge, especially that which concerns the very building blocks of existence. Genetic engineering is exactly the kind of vague, little understood subject that can scare people with its Orwellian implication...
...prototypical attempt to disguise oneself involves hiding behind a pair of impenetrably dark sunglasses, pulling a wide-brimmed hat down low over the brow and wearing slobby non-descript clothes. The method is used ostentatiously by Hollywood stars and ridiculously by cliched private eyes in detective flicks...
With something of the same method and intent, Mamet writes about Hollywood. His plays, films and essays contain many scalding observations on mainstream filmmaking. Yet from 1981's The Postman Always Rings Twice through The Verdict, The Untouchables, Hoffa and The Edge, Mamet has written solid, burly movies for top producers and stars while pursuing a parallel career with the modestly budgeted films he writes and directs himself. "I'm really fortunate," he says. "I have some good friends and supporters in Hollywood." And he knows that part of his job as a filmmaker is "shaking money out of those...
...procrastination as much as curiosity. I had thought about these issues in a general way over the past couple of years, especially as a first-year, when literary theory seemed to be all the rage. It wasn't until beginning to write a thesis that questions of attitude and method became really engaging, however. I suppose that this shift is not too surprising. If you read and write all day, you'll start to think about reading and writing, and the best way of approaching these activities...
Although these valuable privileges should extend to each American, a more effective method of attracting students to partake in an intellectual discussion should have been sought. Generating anger may be a sufficient technique for summoning an audience, but when you desire that group to appear at a discussion, applying a stereotype toward those that would show is a poor propaganda technique. The poster was clearly aimed toward "brainwashed, liberal followers." A person who chooses to attend this meeting may fear categorizing themselves in this classification, whether they view themselves in this...